VP, Data engineering Tech Lead (L12)

Role Title: VP, Data Engineering Tech Lead (L12) Company Overview: COMPANY OVERVIEW: Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's 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's 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's Best Workplaces in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Top 10 among India's 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: Organizational Overview: This role will be part of the Data Architecture & Analytics group part of CTO organization Data team is responsible for designing and developing scalable data pipelines for efficient data ingestion, transformation, and loading(ETL). Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate new data sources and ensure data quality and consistency. Building and maintaining data models to facilitate data access and analysis by Data Scientists and Analysts. Responsible for the SYF public cloud platform & services. Govern health, performance, capacity, and costs of resources and ensure adherence to service levels Build well defined processes for cloud application development and service enablement. Role Summary/Purpose: We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Technical Lead with expertise in Data Engineering who will work in multi-disciplinary environments harnessing data to provide valuable impact for our clients. The Cloud Technical Lead will work closely with technology and functional teams to drive migration of legacy on-premises data systems/platforms to cloud-based solutions. The successful candidate will need to develop intimate knowledge of SYF key data domains (originations, loan activity, collection, etc.) and maintain a holistic view across SYF functions to minimize redundancies and optimize the analytics environment. Key Responsibilities: Manage end-to-end project lifecycle, including planning, execution, and delivery of cloud-based data engineering projects. Providing guidance on suitable options, designing, and creating data pipeline for the analytical solutions across data lake, data warehouses and cloud implementations. Architect and design robust data pipelines and ETL processes leveraging Ab Initio and Amazon Redshift. Ensure data integration, transformation, and storage process are optimized for scalability and performance in cloud environment. Ensure data security, governance, and compliance in the cloud infrastructure. Provide leadership and guidance to data engineering teams, ensuring best practices are followed. Ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions in an Agile environment. Required Skills/Knowledge: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study Minimum 10+ years of experience in managing large scale data platforms (Data warehouse/Data Late/Cloud) environments Minimum 10+ years of financial services experience Minimum 6+ years of experience working with Data Warehouses/Data Lake/Cloud. 6+ years' of hards-on programming experience in ETL tools – Ab Initio or Informatica highly preferred. Be able to read and reverse engineer the logic in Ab Initio graphs. Hands on experience with cloud platforms such as S3, Redshift, Snowflake, etc. Working knowledge of Hive, Spark, Kafka and other data lake technologies. Strong familiarity with data governance, data lineage, data processes, DML, and data architecture control execution. Experience to analyze system requirements and implement migration methods for existing data. Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships at all levels across IT and the business. Excellent written and oral communication skills, along with a strong ability to lead and influence others. Experience working iteratively in a fast-paced agile environment. Demonstrated ability to drive change and work effectively across business and geographical boundaries. Expertise in evaluating technology and solution engineering, with strong focus on architecture and deployment of new technology Superior decision-making, client relationship, and vendor management skills.

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's 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's 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's Best Workplaces in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Top 10 among India's Best Workplaces for Women in 2022.