Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

Millions of transactions and you'll touch all of them if you join our team as a Solution Architect. Imagine the sheer scale of what we impact every second of every day. Now imagine what you can do with that influence. This is where you can shape the future of payments. As a Solution Architect, you'll be developing APIs to integrate various source systems, CTI infrastructure and managing an amazing team of engineers working on our cloud technologies. It's the ideal time to come aboard - we're focused on the future, continuing to evolve a company and help define the financial technology industry. With so much opportunity available, this is where you can make your mark.

Essential Responsibilities:

You are the right candidate if you:

• Are passionate about software development

• Have common sense-can you think through your designs to make sure they're the best?

• Are a coder who's also a problem solver, capable of creating elegant, testable code that's robust and scalable

• Are ready to be disruptive and interesting in the commerce space

• Are a leader: This AVP will influence a cross functional team to deliver awesome technical solutions to solve complicated business challenges.

• Learn quickly and adapt to new technology. Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new languages, operating systems, and tools?

• Can work with product, operations, and project management as one agile team

• Have tech chops: Software development skill are a must

Essential Responsibilities:

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

• Analyze requirements, procedures and problem and work with teams to automate or improve existing system.

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

• Architect applications across the full stack, experience in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful APIs.

• 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 provide technical solutions to business problems.

• 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 Financial

• 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 in Computer Science or related degree with modern application development experience, with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Technology, 3+ years in Microservices development.

• Working knowledge in RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

• Experience as an Architect for applications across the full stack, experience in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem.

• Build and support experience using Java, J2EE, React JS, Spring Projects - Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Cloud, Git, Maven, REST, SOAP.

• Knowledge of Contact center technologies and expertise in design and integration of applications with Cisco and Avaya products such as: Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE), Cisco Unified Contact Center Express UCCX, Cisco CTI Server, Cisco Unified Intelligent Contact Management Enterprise (ICM), Cisco Call Manager, Noble Dialers and Verint Recording Systems.

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

• Passionate to learn and understand diversified business domains and technologies

• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and frameworks

Desired Characteristics:

• Desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to influence clients, team members, management, and external groups

• Exposure to various caching solutions/frameworks such as Redis and Gemfire.

• Exposure to cloud native messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ

• Event driven architecture design patterns

• Microservices design patterns

• Best practices in building highly reliable, scalable APIs

• Credit card domain knowledge.

Grade/Level: 11

The salary range for this position is 110,000.00 - 185,000.00 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.

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 a diverse, inclusive culture where your skills, experience, and voice are not only heard-but valued. We celebrate the differences in all of us and believe that our individual, unique perspectives is what makes Synchrony truly a great place to work. Together, we're building a future where we can all belong, connect and turn ideals into action. Through the power of our 8 Diversity Networks+ (https://www.synchronycareers.com/our-culture/#diversity) , with more than 60% of our workforce engaged, you'll find community to connect with an opportunity to go beyond your passions.

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.

Reasonable Accommodation Notice:

• Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

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Job Family Group:

Information Technology