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Role Summary/Purpose:

The Assistant Vice President, Principal Software Engineer craves working in a hands-on system 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 solution and event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, cloud technologies and the ability to influence and lead a team are musts.

This AVP will lead the development and the life cycle management of our consumer bank and credit servicing applications by creating and developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs and maintain operational excellence. In short, you would be one of our technical experts and team leaders.

This position is remote, where you have the option to work from home. On occasion we may request for you to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training, and culture events. To ensure the safety of our colleagues and communities, we require employees who come together in-person to be fully vaccinated. We're proud to offer you choice and flexibility.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Influence many agile development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle through SAFe

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

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

• Design data models to support complex business processes

• 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 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

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

• 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 the 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

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience with software engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 10 years of experience with software engineering.

• Minimum 6 years of application development experience.

• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud development background.

• Critical Thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills

• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST

• Expertise with continuous integration environments

• Experience with writing unit, integration, and UI test cases

• Deep experience with responsive web design principles and cross device support

• Strong experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry

• Knowledge inusing Splunk for production support.

• Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with MySQL & SQL, Gemfire

• 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

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

• Excellentattention to detail in a team environment

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

• Experience utilizing Dev AI tools e.g. GitHub Copilot

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

Grade/Level: 11

The salary range for this position is 115,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.

Our Way of Working:

We're proud to offer you flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices.You will be required to commute to your nearestHub (either virtual or physical) for in-person engagement activities such as regularbusiness or team meetings, training and culture events.

*Field Sales and some Commercial team roles may have varied location requirements based upon partner obligations or preferences.

Eligibility Requirements:

• You must be 18 years or older

• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months' time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles. Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months' time in position before they can post. All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don't meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Our Commitment:

When you join us, you'll be part of an inclusive culture where your individual skills, experience, and voice are not only heard - but valued. Together, we're building a future where we can all belong, connect, and turn ideals into action. More than 50% of our workforce is engaged in our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where community and passion intersect to offer a safe space to learn and grow.

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We're proud to have an award-winning culture for all.

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