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VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer

Synchrony
Alpharetta, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Jul 2026
💰 $230,000/yr($135,000/yr$230,000/yr)

About the role

Role Summary/Purpose:

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer will serve as a key role in safeguarding enterprise multi-cloud systems, networks, and data. The position is responsible for designing, developing, driving, implementing, leading and managing multi-cloud Information Security Engineering activities for the Cryptography program, including the underlying capabilities/technologies. In addition, this role will be responsible for acting as a trusted peer and stakeholder advisor within the organization, working closely with Information Security Engineering leadership to ensure delivery of the overall program roadmap against the Cryptography strategy and vision. 

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer is part of the Synchrony Information Security Cryptography Team, serving as a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) lead while supporting other efforts, such as Cloud Security, Cryptography, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, Privacy, and Tokenization. The candidate would have an engineering position focused on delivering critical/key enterprise data protection controls, efficient supporting processes, & comprehensive automation capabilities to protect & enable Synchrony’s Information Security Engineering strategy at scale. The candidate is expected to have a strong understanding and technical work experience with Cloud Security, Cryptography, DevSecOps, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, PKI (competency skills/work experience domains include automation, controls, governance, lifecycle management, operations, process engineering, and security standards development). 

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Adopting and promoting engineering excellence by identifying efficiencies and synergies through means of automation, collaboration, and orchestration 

  • Collaborates with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, identify solutions to address, assist with proof of concepts and testing of solutions 

  • Implementation and technical lead responsibilities that include ongoing DevSecOps/Engineering support for a global cryptography program that leverages a portfolio of multi-cloud data protection capabilities 

  • Managing technology from the ground up and understanding gaps within the tech stack, including overlap with other technology and/or coverage, capability gaps  

  • Maintaining technology from a business as usual (BAU) aspect by ensuring the proper change management, disaster recover, incident management processes are occurring and current  

  • Participate as one of several technical leads on team of Information Security engineers 

  • Participate in author

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