Synchrony · 8 hours ago
VP, Solution Architect - Digital Servicing
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$135K/yr - $230K/yr
8+ years expSynchrony is a company focused on delivering exceptional digital servicing applications, and they are seeking a Vice President, Solution Architect. This role involves leading the architecture and support for complex systems, ensuring they meet business needs while maintaining operational excellence in scalability, performance, and security.
Consumer LendingFinanceFinancial ServicesInsuranceVenture Capital
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design and guide the architecture for complex systems, ensuring that it is secure, scalable, performant, adaptable, and meets business needs
Assist in crafting and maintaining the architecture roadmap, future state technology architectural strategy, along with application modernization and migration roadmap
Design solutions to business needs by documenting systems, data, and business logic of an end-to-end business process
Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards set by Synchrony
Be a leading architect for development teams, influencing them through all phases of Agile development life cycle
Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create exceptional application solutions
Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies
Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams
Design data models to support complex business processes
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
Lead Agile sprints as the technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews
Participate in troubleshooting production defects, root cause analysis, incident reports, and provide direction in problem resolution
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience with software engineering experience OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 10 years of experience with software engineering
Proven strong solution architecture skills and experience in designing complex technical solutions
Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud native design patterns
Experience in architecting applications across the full stack including Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, RESTful APIs, API Gateway and Spring Framework
Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and related open-source technologies
Familiarity with JSON, REST, and XML based web services
Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with Oracle, MySQL, & SQL
Critical Thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical peers
Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required
Preferred
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) experience is desired
Experience in iOS, Android, Web, React and AWS is desired
Experience developing and supporting financial/banking applications is desired
Benefits
Eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance
Company
Synchrony
Synchrony is a consumer financial services company.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$500M2024-02-15Post Ipo Equity· $500M
2014-08-01IPO
Leadership Team
Brian Doubles
President & CEO
Raj Deol
SVP, Sam’s Club Marketing Leader
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