Synchrony Financial Looking for AVP, Solution Architect (L 11) at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

Job Description:
Role Summary/Purpose:
The Assistant Vice President, Solution Architect 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, Cloud Native Apps Architecture, event-driven architecture, building resilient batch applications using Spring Cloud Data Flow and the ability to influence and lead a team are musts.

You are the right candidate if you…

Have passion: Sure, you can code, but are you passionate about 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 pretty code: Do you write elegant, testable, performant code that is robust and scalable?

Are a leader: This AVP will influence a cross functional team to deliver awesome cutting-edge customer communications applications. Are you up for the challenge?

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: Full Stack development background is a must

This position is remote, where you have the option to work from home. On occasion we may request for you to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training and culture events. To ensure the safety of our colleagues and communities, we require employees who come together in-person to be fully vaccinated. We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility.

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, AWS, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, Spring Batch, 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.

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

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 Financial

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 24×7 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

Qualifications/Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree with 7+ years of experience in Technology with modern application development experience; OR in lieu of a degree, 9+ years of experience in Technology with modern application development experience.

3+ years in API development using Java.

2 years as in Technical Lead driving product solutions in Enterprise Communications.

Strong Technical Expertise in Java, Spring Projects – Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Git, Maven, Gradle and REST.

Strong Experience in developing microservices with 12-factor app methodology.

Strong Experience with Agile application development and familiarity with tools like JIRA.

Strong Experience with continuous integration environments and using tools like Jenkins.

Strong Experience writing unit and integration tests and familiarity with frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Spring Test.

Strong Experience with Caching Systems.

Strong desire to develop high quality code with ability to review and leverage quality check tools like Sonar, PMD etc.

Strong Experience in designing API’s using SOLID principles, Java and microservice design patterns with business acumen.

Good to have knowledge on developing Event-Driven Applications using Kafka.

Excellence in technical communication with technical and non-technical peers

Good to have knowledge on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Good to have Knowledge on AWS

Experience using Splunk for production support and Dashboard building.

Strong experience in using Monitoring Tools like New Relic and NSQL.

Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with MySQL & Oracle Databases

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

For Internal Applicants: Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying.

Inform your Manager or HRM before applying for any role on Workday.

Ensure that your Professional Profile is updated (fields such as Education, Prior experience, Other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

Level 9+ employees can apply

Desired Characteristics:
Desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment

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

Grade/Level: 11

Job Family Group:
Information Technology