AVP, Solution Architect - OnePay

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

Synchrony is looking for a talented and passionate Solution Architect to join our team, focused on supporting integrations and resiliency for OnePay, a Synchrony partner serving millions of customers in a new, first-of-its-kind credit card program for Walmart.

As the AVP, Solution Architect specializing in reliability and partner integration for OnePay, you will serve as the technical lead and SME driving end-to-end solution architecture for all systems and integrations specific to OnePay partnership initiatives. In this role, you will champion API stability, performance, and scalability, while shepherding solution design, technical delivery, and integration best practices across multiple agile teams and internal/external stakeholders.

This role calls for a unique balance of technical acumen and business insight to ensure frictionless onboarding and seamless, secure interoperability between Synchrony systems and OnePay’s ecosystem. As the primary technical liaison for OnePay integrations, you will be a key driver in delivery and ongoing reliability of our joint platforms.

Our Way of Working

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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership for OnePay Initiatives:
  Serve as the principal architect for all technical solutions involving OnePay, including the design, integration, and ongoing support of mission-critical APIs and partner interfaces.

• API Reliability and Resilience:
  Architect, implement, and continuously improve API strategies to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and consistency for OnePay-related services. Lead root-cause analysis and proactive reliability enhancements tailored to OnePay’s business transactions.

• Partner Integration:
  Collaborate cross-functionally with OnePay’s product and engineering teams to define and deliver E2E technical integrations, including authentication, data exchange protocols, and workflow handoffs between Synchrony and OnePay. Recommend and implement integration patterns to maximize business process continuity and data integrity.

• Solution Design & Governance:
  Evaluate OnePay’s current and future integration needs; translate requirements into scalable platform solutions aligned with enterprise standards and OnePay’s SLAs and regulatory obligations.

• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Act as the technical point of contact for all OnePay-specific projects, providing clear and actionable insights to Synchrony and OnePay stakeholders, including product managers, C-level executives, and external vendor teams.

• Mentorship & Enablement:
  Mentor and coach multiple Agile development teams (including partner teams) delivering on OnePay initiatives, ensuring alignment with architectural guidelines and quality standards throughout the SDLC.

• Technology Selection & Innovation:
  Assess and recommend technologies (APIs, integration platforms) fit for the OnePay partnership, balancing architecture best practices, enterprise constraints, and OnePay’s business objectives.

• Continuous Improvement:
  Identify opportunities for process automation and reliability engineering in all OnePay integrations; promote API-first design, monitoring, and robust error-handling strategies.

• Code Management & Repository Setup:
  Establish, configure, and maintain code repositories specific to OnePay projects, ensuring best practices for version control, code organization, access management, and secure collaboration between Synchrony and OnePay development teams.

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field AND at least 7 years’ experience across multiple IT areas OR 10 years’ application development experience (in lieu of degree)

• Minimum 5 years full-stack development using Spring (Spring Boot), Java EE, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern UI frameworks

• At least 3 years’ experience with Junit, Jmeter, Postman or comparable testing tools

• At least 2 years’ hands-on experience with React JS, Angular JS, Node.js or similar frameworks

• At least 2 years’ experience on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, or s