Job Description

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Role Title: VP, Front-End Software Engineering Manager

Company Overview:

COMPANY OVERVIEW: Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry\xe2\x80\x99s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

We have recently been ranked #5 among India\xe2\x80\x99s Best Companies to Work for 2023, #21 under LinkedIn Top Companies in India list, and received Top 25 BFSI recognition from Great Place To Work India. We have been ranked Top 5 among India\xe2\x80\x99s Best Workplaces in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Top 10 among India\xe2\x80\x99s Best Workplaces for Women in 2022.

We offer 100% Work from Home flexibility for all our Functional employees and provide some of the best-in-class Employee Benefits and Programs catering to work-life balance and overall well-being. In addition to this, we also ave Regional Engagement Hubs across India and a co-working space in Bangalore.

Organizational Overview:

Our engineering organization is made up of software development engineers, quality engineers, solution architects and reliability engineers who develop and support our most mission critical systems. We leverage cutting edge technology to build systems that support over 70MM cardholders and process billions of transactions.

Role Summary/Purpose:

The Vice President, Front-End Engineering craves working in a hands-on web application coding, design, and architecture environment, and leads by example to make sure time sensitive projects get done on time and to specifications. To be successful in this role, deep expertise in Front-End Web development and the ability to influence, lead, and manage teams are musts.

This VP will lead the development and the production support of our responsive design web applications by creating and developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs and maintain operational excellence. In short, you would be one of our web experts and team leaders

You\xe2\x80\x99re the one we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for if you:

Are passionate about managing teams, the people and their career path

Have passion: Sure, you can code, but are you passionate about web software development?

Have common sense: Building is important, but do you think through designs to ensure they\xe2\x80\x99re the best solutions first?

Are slightly obsessed with pretty code: Do you write elegant, testable, performant code that is robust and scalable?

Are a leader: This VP will lead a tech team to deliver awesome cutting-edge web applications. Are you up for the challenge?

Learn quickly and adapt to new technology: Let\xe2\x80\x99s face it \xe2\x80\x93 technology changes by the minute. Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new languages, operating systems, and tools?

Think like a customer: Central to our products is our understanding of our customers\xe2\x80\x99 needs and requirements. Do you consider UX in your decision making, and think like a customer?

Have tech chops: Boasting ReactJS and Full Stack development background is a must

Have the T skills and can work with product, operations and project management as #one synchrony

Are ready to work with HR Functions, hire people and create career path for your team

We\xe2\x80\x99ll depend on you to:

To work in flexible timings and participate in a cross-shore development team

Lead a front-end team of managers and engineers, through all phases of the Agile development life cycle

Lead your team goals, performance conversation and career path

Lead and influence the community of practices for front-end developers

Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies

Develop applications using ReactJS as a leader of the development team

Architect applications across the full stack, experience in PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful APIs are a must.

Drive a CI/CD strategy using our Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy stack.

Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create amazing web apps.

Mentor and influence all levels of the team: in this role, you will have the opportunity to influence up and down the chain of command

Design and execute a training curriculum for new engineers joining the team

Ensure compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony Financial

Assist in crafting and maintaining the future state technology architectural strategy, along with our application modernization and migration roadmap.

Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams

Lead Agile sprints as technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews

Ensure application code quality through development, test, and QA

Participate in addressing root cause analyses, incident reports and provide direction in problem resolution

Ability to analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, and implement fixes

Passionate about the latest technologies, open-source projects and languages.

Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year

Identify ways to increase efficiency and improve system performance

Work with third party vendors to develop software and/or integrate their software into the company\'s products

Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Required Skills/Knowledge:

Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or related degree with modern application development experience, with a minimum 10 years of web application development experience, design and architecture and 3 years of people management

Experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST

Strong ReactJS development skills.

Experience with continuous integration environments

Experience with writing unit, integration, and UI test cases

Experience working with OAUTH and SAML

Deep experience with responsive web design principles and cross device support

Strong experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Experience using Splunk for production support

Experience using Omniture for web analytics

Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services

Working knowledge of the overall mobile industry

Excellence in technical communication with technical and non-technical peers

Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a matrix organization and partner with global development companies

Desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment

Experience developing and supporting financial/banking applications

Experience in developing and maintaining shared libraries for the organization

Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence clients, team members, management and external groups

Strong attention to detail in a team environment

Strong oral and written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to analyze, use structured problem solving and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact and resolution options

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or related degree with modern application development experience, with a minimum 10 years of web application development experience, design and architecture and 3 years of people management.

Work Timings: Flexible working hours in line with Synchrony\'s Approach to Expanded Flexibility and Choice in India

For Internal Applicants:

Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday

Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

L10+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

L10+ Employees can apply

Grade/ Level: 12

Job Family Group: Information Technology

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