AVP, Principal Data Engineer

Synchrony • Altamonte Springs, FL

93d • $110,000 - $185,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for an AVP 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. We're proud to offer you choice and 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. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Requirements

• 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).
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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 (Hadoop & Spark) and analytics concepts.
• 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 at 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.
• Prior work experience in a Credit Card/Banking/Fin Tech company.
• Experience dealing with sensitive data in a highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated implementation of complex and innovative solutions.
• Articles and publications in the field of data engineering.
• AWS Solution Architect/Data Engineer certification.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and lead data engineering applications in highly agile and fast-moving teams.
• Lead a 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), 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.
• Lead data engineering team to drive program delivery.
• Drive technical development and application standards across enterprise data lake and data warehouse.
• 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.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Benefits

• Salary range: 110,000.00 - 185,000.00 USD Annual.
• Eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree