Job Description

Role Title: VP, Senior Data Engineering Manager (L14)

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 have Regional Engagement Hubs across India and a co-working space in Bangalore.

Organizational Overview:

The CTO Analytics organization is responsible for the strategic and operational delivery of high-quality data and analytic products that support Synchrony\xe2\x80\x99s application and analytic products.

Role Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Data Architecture& Analytics, the Senior Data Engineering Manager will partner with leaders across Synchrony to plan and execute data engineering product development efforts across multiple functional and Scaled Agile (SAFe) release trains. The Senior Data Engineering Manager will develop and lead a team of solution architects and data engineers responsible ingesting, standardizing, and curating data products and capabilities across Synchrony\xe2\x80\x99s data and analytic platforms. An exceptional candidate will have demonstrated Data Management process, risk, and control experience, reducing development and operational risks through modular, reusable, and automated solutions and other data management approaches. As a Synchrony people leader, you will be responsible for coaching and developing individuals to be successful in a diverse, inclusive, and matrixed organization where they can grow their career, deepen their technology and leadership experience, and the overall team flourishes. The ideal candidate will have a solid and established track record of multi-year cloud data transformation and migration execution experience, partnering with business & technology stakeholders to guide the delivery of agile, cost-effective, and high-performance cloud data solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide vision, leadership, and strategic direction for data engineers to deliver high quality data solutions, try new ways to solve technical challenges, focus on enhancing skills and enabling unique career development opportunities.

Drive data engineering process development improvements, including automation and innovation efforts to reduce complexity and drive consistency to ensure data is persisted effectively across all data and analytic platforms.

Partner with Data Office and other Data Management process owners to mitigate risk.

Partner with Synchrony leaders to deliver innovative data and analytic solutions for high impact Strategic Initiatives.

Interpret & respond to regulatory requests & heightened expectations for data management risk reduction efforts.

Be a champion of change with the Office of Agile team to drive speed and agile delivery using SAFe methods.

Continuously monitor team interactions, celebrate successes and pulse for disconnects to ensure optimal performance.

Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

Minimum of 5 years of data engineering experience leveraging public cloud capabilities.

Minimum of 7 years of experience in a large complex organization

Minimum of 7 years analytic platform development experience

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

Demonstrated and successful cloud transformation and data application migration experience leveraging AWS public cloud services.

Experience leading functional teams and/or large-scale projects with high visibility and complexity. Provides vision, leadership, and strategy to technology programs that are aligned to business goals and designed to optimize business impact, customer experience and financial results.

Thought leadership required to identify emerging technology opportunities as well as to solve unique & complex problems while understanding agile software development methodologies & lifecycle

Leads strategy and acts as the architect of solutions with deep technical expertise, this person is widely known to support within and across as a Principle Architect with mastery in more than one complex technological areas

In-depth knowledge of testing practices and techniques

Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems

Demonstrate independent leadership of concepts & ideas

Participate in response to regulatory requests

Understand technical issues and the severity of business. Impact while offering recommendations to mitigate.

Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadline

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor\'s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of IT experience, OR in lieu of a Degree minimum of 14 years of experience in an IT environment

Work Timings: This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time \xe2\x80\x93 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details

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)

Level 12+ employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible

L12+ Employees can apply

Grade/Level: 14

Job Family Group: Information Technology

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