AVP, Principal Mobile Engineer - SyPI

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose

The Assistant Vice President, Principal Mobile Software Development Engineer craves working in a hands-on mobile environment and leads by example to make sure projects are delivered on time and to specification. To be successful in this role, you will need deep expertise in iOS or Android development, as well as a strong understanding of the entire technology stack top to bottom. This dynamic and collaborative role will be part of the Synchrony’s Mobile App Engineering team.

This AVP will lead the development and release process of the Mobile software and SDKs for Synchrony and its clients by developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs, maintain operational excellence, deliver a quality product efficiently and provide production support. In short, you would be one of our Mobile Application experts.

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.

You are the right candidate if you…

• Have passion: Are you passionate about full stack mobile software development, ensuring best practices, striving the highest quality code?

• Are obsessed with great code: Do you write elegant, testable, performant code that is robust, scalable and resilient?

• Are a leader: This AVP will lead cross functional teams to deliver cutting edge features to our clients. Are you up for the challenge?

• Learn quickly and adapt to new technology: Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new frameworks, tools, processes, and products?

• Think like a user: Central to our products is the understanding of our clients’ and user’s needs and requirements. Do you consider user experience in your decision making and think like a user?

• Have technical chops: Boasting a mobile SDK and API engineering development background is a must.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead a development team through all phases of the Agile development life cycle

• Identify and provide technical details for features identified by business product owners

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

• Provide strong technical leadership for the team developing iOS and Android applications using Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, as well as a team building scalable and resilient APIs

• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create amazing apps

• 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 and roadmap

• Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams

• Lead Agile sprints as 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, both in engineering and Agile processes

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and vice-versa

• Write clear, clean, and coherent documentation

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

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of experience with software engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 6 years of experience with software engineering. 

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