AVP Consumer Bank Principal Data Engineer

Job Description:

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 #2 among India's Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India's Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.
• Synchrony celebrates ~51% women diversity, 105+ people with disabilities, and ~50 veterans and veteran family members.
• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview:

Consumer bank data team is part of a larger analytics and technology organization that supports the bank's retail products related data.

Core functions of the data team

• Data Governance: Establishing and enforcing policies for how customer data is collected, stored, and used to ensure accuracy, integrity, and regulatory compliance.
• Reporting and Business Intelligence: Creating dashboards and reports that provide business leaders with insights on performance, customer behavior, and market conditions.
• Infrastructure: Working with enterprise  engineering teams to manage the data warehouse, data lakes, and other analytical infrastructure. comprises of skills in AbInitio, data analytics, Spark and other data warehousing and data lake tools. Team will be also operate in public cloud environment.
• Ad-hoc Analysis: Responding to specific requests from business partners for "what-if" scenarios or deep-dive analysis. 

Role Summary/Purpose:

AVP Consumer Bank Principal Data Engineer to lead the development of consumer-centric low latency analytic environment leveraging Data technologies and transform the legacy systems. This role is an exciting, fast-paced, constantly changing, and challenging work environment, and will play an important role in resolving and influencing high-level decisions across Synchrony.

Key Responsibilities:

• Being able to work with architects, tech leads and engineers on technical issues
• Design, develop and lead financial services data applications in highly agile and fast-moving teams.
• Lead a financial services data engineering team and roll up the sleeves to individually contribute when required.
• Implement ETL/ELT on a big data platform (Cloudera Hadoop cluster) / Container using Ab Initio, Spark, Hive, Kafka, RDBMS(Oracle, MySQL, Snowflake), NoSQL databases(Cassandra), and public cloud solutions.
• Responsible for design, development, testing oversight and production implementation.
• Experience with batch and real-time data pipelines in a DevOps environment using Ab Initio and Spark.
• Work closely with Product owners, Product Managers, Program manager, scrum masters in a Scaled Agile framework.
• Partner with architects to efficiently design data applications with scalability, resiliency and speed.
• Provided technical oversight, managed work products and acted as a technical coach to a global team of developers
• Drive technical development and application standards across enterprise data warehouse and Data lake.
• Accomplish results by communicating expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to improve and deliver on business objectives and priorities.
• Apply technical knowledge, industry experience, expertise, and insights to contribute to the development & execution of Engineering capabilities.
• Stays up-to-date on latest trends in data engineering, recommends best practices, develops innovative frameworks to avoid redundancy by promoting automation.
• Mentor and coach the team to promote Synchrony values and culture.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree preferred with a concentration of study in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 4 to 5 years of work experience with ELT/ETL/Data warehousing, large scale Data environments e.g., Cloudera and public cloud (AWS preferred) using Ab Initio, Spark, Hive, Kafka, RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL, Snowflake)
• In lieu of a degree, a certification in related field and 8 to 9 years of work experience with above mentioned exposure to large scale data environments for Consumer Bank.

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Prior experience as a Data Engineering Technical Lead leading team in Scaled Agile framework.
• Strong experience and deep understanding of ETL, data warehousing, data lakes and analytics concepts.
• Outstanding analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Experience in banking or financial services; Fiserv banking platform familiarity, FDIC 370 understanding a plus.
• Experience owning multiple mission critical applications on data platform.
• Experience with batch and real-time data pipelines in a DevOps environment.
• Must be willing to work in a fast-paced environment with globally located Agile teams working in different shifts.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships at all levels across IT and Business Stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Adept and presenting complex topics, influencing, and executing with timely /actionable follow-through.
• Experience in designing ETL pipelines to enable automated data load into AWS S3 & Redshift.
• Experience dealing with sensitive data in a highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated implementation of complex and innovative solutions.
• Nice to have AWS Solution Architect/Data Engineer certification.
• Be the captain of the team, led by example, go beyond the boundaries, motivate, and a team player.

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor degree with 6 years of Information Technology experience, or in lieu of degree 8 years of working experience.

WORK TIMINGS : If the role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice, please leave the below be. Else specify the timings the role is expected to be operational in

(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 – 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)
• L9 and above employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

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