AVP, Solution Architect - Incubation

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose: 

The AVP, Solution Architect craves getting into the weeds of hard problems and figuring out how to make things work.  This dynamic and collaborative role will be part of the Synchrony Financial renowned Innovation Station – the hotbed of innovation and thought leadership throughout the company. 

This Solution Architect will architect complex business solutions by partnering with business and technology leaders to understand key challenges as well as produce process flows and system interaction diagrams to help drive these solutions. In short, you will figure out how to make our innovative ideas work in the real world with a particular focus in the product incubation space. 

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: Sure you can code, but are you passionate about mobile software development?    

• Have common sense: Building is important, but do you think through designs to ensure they’re the best solutions first?  

• Are slightly obsessed with solution design: Do you focus on failure scenarios, performance, data integrity, security…all the good stuff?  

• Learn quickly and adapt to new technology: Let’s face it – technology changes by the minute. Are you able to quickly adapt and learn to be productive with new languages, operating systems, and tools?  

• Think like a customer: Central to our products is our understanding of our customers’ needs and requirements.  Do you consider UX in your decision making, and think like a customer?  

• Have tech chops: You need to be ready to get into the weeds on complex technology solutions and be willing to identify the right tool for the right solution, not simply falling back on what you’re comfortable with. 

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Be a leading architect for a few development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle   

• Rapid prototyping through mindful use of company resources and tech stacks 

• Design solutions to business needs by documenting systems, data, and business logic of an end-to-end business process. 

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

• Ensure compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony 

• Assist in crafting and maintaining the future state technology architectural strategy and roadmap  

• Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams  

• 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  

• Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year 

• Passionate about the latest technologies, open source projects and languages