The AVP, Lead Software Engineer

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

The AVP, Lead Software Engineer craves working in a hands-on system design and architecture environment and leads by example to make sure time sensitive projects get done on time and to specifications. To be successful in this role, deep expertise in solution and event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, cloud technologies and the ability to influence and lead a team are musts.  

This AVP will lead the development and the life cycle management of our consumer bank acquisition and servicing application by creating and developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs and maintain operational excellence.  In short, you would be one of our technical experts and team leaders. 

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:

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

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

• Architect applications across the full stack, experience in PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful API’s are a must. 

• Design data models to support complex business processes

• Drive a CI/CD strategy using our Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy stack. 

• 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 

• 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 and a minimum 8 years of experience with software engineering; OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 10 years of experience with software engineering. 

• Minimum 5 years of application development experience. 

• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud development background.

• Critical Thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST, writing unit test cases and automation.

• Expertise with CI/CD environments.

• Strong experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry 

• Desire to learn new technology and prototype business problem solutions using them.

• Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with MySQL & SQL 

• Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services 

• Excellence in technical communication with technical and non-technical peers 

• Strong cross-functional team player with the ability to work seamlessly across a matrix organization and partner with global development companies. 

• Desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment. 

• Experience developing and supporting financial/banking Enterprise scale applications. 

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

• Excellent attention to detail in a team environment