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AVP – Senior Data Engineer

Synchrony Financial

$100,000 - $170,000
May 23, 2025
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The company is looking to develop Big Data applications supporting key business domains and needs a Senior Data Engineer to provide technical leadership.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering skills in the following technologies: Ab Initio, Shell Scripting, Spark, Hive, Scala, Python, SQL
  • Experience with large scale Big Data environments such as Cloudera and (AWS preferred).
  • Strong experience and deep understanding of ETL, data warehousing, data lake technologies (Hadoop & Spark) and analytics concepts.
  • Experience with batch and real-time data pipelines in a DevOps environment.
  • Experience with data visualization technologies such as Tableau
  • Experience with APIs/Microservices in data-driven applications
  • Prior work experience in a Credit card/Banking/Fin tech companies.

Responsibilities

  • Develop big data & ETL applications for Synchrony in AWS and Hadoop ecosystem.
  • Design and implement scalable & fault tolerant data applications on Big-Data & Cloud Platforms to store and process terabytes of data from upstream sources with high availability.
  • Resolve problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes, system processes, enterprise standards & procedures.
  • Design, development, testing oversight and production implementation using Spark, Hive, Kafka, API, Scala, Python, SQL & AWS.
  • Lead the technical team to ensure appropriate data solutions to meet business goals as well as identify and define necessary system and process enhancements.
  • Stay up to date on latest trends in data engineering and recommended best practices.
  • Utilize innovative frameworks to avoid redundancy by promoting automation.

Other

  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 4 years of experience in Technology in the consumer banking industry OR High School Diploma/GED and a minimum of 7 years or experience in Technology OR successful completion of Synchrony’s Business Leadership Program
  • Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative working relationships with Technology and Business Stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills. Adept and presenting complex topics executing with timely / actionable follow-through.
  • Willing to work in a fast-paced environment with globally located Agile teams working in different shifts.
  • You must be 18 years or older
  • You must have a high school diploma or equivalent
  • You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process
  • You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.