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AVP, Principal Data Engineer

Synchrony

$110,000 - $185,000
Aug 28, 2025
Stamford, CT, US
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Synchrony is looking to resolve and influence high-level decisions by transforming legacy systems and developing a consumer-centric low latency analytic environment leveraging Data technologies.

Requirements

  • ELT/ETL/Data warehousing, large scale Data environments e.g., Cloudera and public cloud (AWS preferred) using Ab Initio, Spark, Hive, Kafka, RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL)
  • Experience with batch and real-time data pipelines in a DevOps environment.
  • Strong experience and deep understanding of ETL, data warehousing, data lakes (Hadoop & Spark) and analytics concepts.
  • Experience owning multiple mission critical applications on data platform.
  • Experience designing ETL pipelines to enable automated data load into AWS S3 & Redshift.
  • Prior work experience in a Credit Card/Banking/Fin Tech company.
  • Experience dealing with sensitive data in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and lead data engineering applications in highly agile and fast-moving teams.
  • Implement ETL/ELT on a big data platform (Cloudera Hadoop cluster) / Container using Ab Initio, Spark, Hive, Kafka, RDBMS(Oracle, MySQL), NoSQL databases(Cassandra), and public cloud solutions.
  • Responsible for design, development, testing oversight and production implementation.
  • Experience with batch and real-time data pipelines in a DevOps environment using Ab Initio and Spark.
  • Partner with architects to efficiently design data applications with scalability, resiliency and speed.
  • Lead data engineering team to drive program delivery.
  • Drive technical development and application standards across enterprise data lake and data warehouse.

Other

  • Bachelor's degree preferred with a concentration of study in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 4 to 5 years of work experience
  • In lieu of a degree, a certification in related field and 8 to 9 years of work experience
  • Must be willing to work in a fast-paced environment with globally located Agile teams working in different shifts.
  • Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships at all levels across IT and Business Stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.