VP, Engineering Strategy

Synchrony • Bentonville, AR

1d • $170,000 - $290,000 • Remote

About The Position

The VP, Engineering Strategy establishes and executes operating models, governance, and leadership rhythms to improve the effectiveness and delivery outcomes of the Engineering organization. This role provides strategic and tactical support to the SVP, Engineering and the Engineering Senior Leadership Team. This leader is also accountable for large program execution at scale. The role directly manages RTEs and ensures consistent planning, dependency management, delivery governance, and outcomes across the Engineering Agile Release Train and the Cloud Application Migration Release Train.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of equivalent work experience in Technology or Financial Services field
• Demonstrated success leading a team with proven track record of delivering results
• Strategic thinker with keen business acumen and decision-making skills
• Strong overall knowledge of SYF business
• Management in a matrixed environment
• Proven ability to accomplish goals with highly complex, time sensitive deliverables
• Problem solver with experience defining, shaping, and influencing strategy
• Ability to influence across the business at all levels in the organization
• Skilled communicator (both written and verbal) at all levels inside and outside an organization
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required
• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience creating and leading organizational change
• Ability to demonstrate innovation and creative approaches to business priorities

Responsibilities

• Establish and own operating rhythm for Engineering leadership team to make the team more effective – including standups, enabling functional cycles for Governance, Finance, and HR and CIO Operations.
• Portfolio / program leadership at scale: Provide leadership and oversight for the Engineering ART and Cloud Migration ART by setting/standardizing planning and delivery cadences, managing cross-team dependencies and risks, and ensuring predictable, transparent delivery against committed outcomes.
• Create and deliver tools and resources to the leadership team for the purposes of decision making, strategic discussions, evaluating key performance indicators and driving accountability.
• Provide direction for and manage key initiatives/ special projects (e.g. Engineering operational resiliency, Client SLA reporting and maturity, internal external communication, etc.).
• Partner closely with Engineering leadership team, Finance, Communications, and HR.
• Drive alignment and collaboration between Engineering, Tech and Ops, and other key cross functional stakeholders on key imperatives.
• Lead initiatives to support our transformation efforts. Interface/partner with functional peers in establishing strategies to support the transformation agenda and strategy.
• Collaborate with leadership team and HR to manage talent development and engagement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the SVP of Engineering and leadership team.
• Lead other business-wide initiatives and special projects, as assigned.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Benefits

• eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance
• inclusive culture where your individual skills, experience, and voice are not only heard – but valued
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive