VP, Credit Senior Data Architecture Manager

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Data Architecture & Analytics, the VP, Credit Senior Data Architecture Manager will partner with our Credit organization and other Strategic Initiative efforts to plan, design and execute Credit data solutions, ensuring alignment to long-term Synchrony data management strategy and leveraging agile development cadences. The VP, Credit Senior Data Architecture Manager will develop and lead a team of solution architects and data engineers, responsible for delivering Credit solutions across the end-to-end data pipeline, including ingesting, standardizing, and curating data for analytic consumption & application (API) access.

An exceptional candidate will have demonstrated Data Management process, risk, and control experience, reducing development and operational risks through modular, reusable, and automated solutions and other data management approaches.

As a Synchrony people leader, you will be responsible for coaching and developing individuals to be successful in a diverse, inclusive, and matrixed organization where they can grow their career, deepen their technology and leadership experience, ensuring the overall team flourishes.

The ideal candidate will have public cloud data transformation and migration execution experience, partnering with business & technology stakeholders to guide the delivery of agile, cost-effective, and high-performance cloud data solutions.  We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. You have the option to be remote, and work from home, or come into one of our offices. You may be occasionally requested to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training and culture events.

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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Partner with Synchrony Credit business and technical leaders to identify & prioritize business needs for data products and solutions to effectively drive Credit business activities and capabilities, while ensuring strategic alignment to Data management strategies.  Deliver innovative data and analytic solutions for high impact Strategic Initiatives. 
• Provide vision, leadership, coaching and strategic direction for data architects & engineers to deliver high quality data solutions based on business needs. Drive team to leverage creative & high-performing ways to solve technical challenges, design modern & effective solutions, focus on enhancing skills and enable unique career development opportunities.  
• Effectively collaborate with the rest of the Data & Analytics organization to align proposed solutions with data management long-term strategy and to ensure existing Credit data solutions are performing optimally, accurately and efficiently.
• Partner with Data Office, other Data Management process owners and risk partners to mitigate risk. Proactively identify and resolve any issues and/or incidents.
• Interpret & respond to regulatory requests & heightened expectations for data management risk reduction efforts.  
• Drive data architecture process development improvements, including automation and innovation efforts to reduce complexity and drive consistency to ensure data is persisted effectively across all data and analytic platforms. 
• Continuously monitor team interactions, celebrate successes and pulse for disconnects to ensure optimal performance. 
• Be a champion of change with the Office of Agile team to drive speed and agile delivery using SAFe methods. 
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 9+ years of IT experience OR in lieu of a Degree, High School Diploma/GED and a minimum of 12+ years of experience in an IT environment 
• Minimum of 5 years of data architecture experience leveraging public cloud capabilities.
• Minimum of 5 years of Internal Client / Business Partner management experience
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a large complex organization 
• Minimum of 7 years analytic platform development experience 

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated and successful cloud transformation and data application migration experience leveraging AWS public cloud services.
• Experience leading functional teams and/or large-scale projects with high visibility and complexity. Provides vision, leadership, and strategy to technology programs that are aligned to business goals and designed to optimize business impact, customer experience and financial results. 
• Thought leadership required to identify emerging technology opportunities as well as to solve unique & complex problems while understanding agile software development methodologies & lifecycle 
• Leads strategy and acts as the architect of solutions with deep technical expertise, this person is widely known to support within and across as a Principle Architect with mastery in more than one complex technological areas  
• In-depth knowledge of testing practices and techniques 
• Creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems 
• Demonstrate independent leadership of concepts & ideas 
• Drive responses to regulatory requests  
• Understand technical issues and the severity of business. Impact while offering recommendations to mitigate.  
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines. 

Grade/Level: 14

The salary range for this position is 170,000.00 - 290,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.

Eligibility Requirements:

• 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.

• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles.  Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months’ time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles.  Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months’ time in position before they can post.  All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don’t meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. 

Our Commitment:

When you join us, you’ll be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where your skills, experience, and voice are not only heard—but valued. We celebrate the differences in all of us and believe that our individual, unique perspectives is what makes Synchrony truly a great place to work. Together, we’re building a future where we can all belong, connect and turn ideals into action. Through the power of our 8 Diversity Networks+, with more than 60% of our workforce engaged, you’ll find community to connect with an opportunity to go beyond your passions.

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Reasonable Accommodation Notice:

• Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

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