AVP, Senior Data Engineer (L10)

Job Description:

Role Title: AVP, Senior Data Engineer (L10)

Company Overview:

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

• We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.

• Synchrony celebrates ~51% women diversity, 105+ people with disabilities, and ~50 veterans and veteran family members.

• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.

• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview:

This role will be part of the Data Architecture & Analytics group part of CTO organization.

• Data team is responsible for designing and developing scalable data pipelines for efficient data ingestion, transformation, and loading(ETL).

• Data team owns and manages different tools platforms which provides an environment for designing and building different data solutions.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate new data sources and ensure data quality and consistency.

• Building and maintaining data models to facilitate data access and analysis by Data Scientists and Analysts

Role Summary/Purpose:

The candidate Ab-inito Data Engineer will join an Agile scrum team and perform functional & system development for Synchrony’s Enterprise Data Lake. As a Ab-inito Data Engineer the ability to integrate data across internal and external sources, provide analytical insights, and integrate with our critical systems are key skills. The engineer will participate in data analysis efforts to ensure the delivery of high-quality data ingestion, standardization and curation and maintain compliance with the applicable Data Sourcing, Data Quality, and Data Governance standards. The engineer will drive quality through the entire software development lifecycle with focus on functional requirements, efficiency, and methodology. The engineer will work cross-functionally with operations, other data engineers and product owner to assure capabilities are delivered that meet business needs

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop Ab-inito Graphs for Synchrony in Hadoop ecosystem

• Participate in the agile development process including backlog grooming, coding, code reviews, testing and deployment

• Work with team members to achieve business results in a fast paced and quickly changing environment

• Pair with experienced data engineers to develop analytic applications leveraging technologies such as: Ab Initio, Hadoop, NoSQL, In-memory Data Grids, Kafka, Spark

• Provide data analysis for Synchrony’s data ingestion, standardization and curation efforts ensuring all data is understood from a business context

• Identify enablers and level of effort required to properly ingest and transform data for the data lake.

• Profile data to assist with defining the data elements, propose business term mappings, and define data quality rules

• Work with the Data Office to ensure that data dictionaries for all ingested and created data sets are properly documented in Collibra and any other data dictionary repository

• Ensure the lineage of all data assets are properly documented in the appropriate enterprise metadata repositories

• Assist with the creation and implementation of data quality rules

• Ensure the proper identification of sensitive data elements and critical data elements

• Create source-to-target data mapping documents

• Test current processes and identify deficiencies

• Investigate program quality to make improvements to achieve better data accuracy

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Performance tuning experience

• Exposure to the following Ab Initio tools: GDE – Graphical Development Environment; Co>Operating System ; Control Center; Metadata Hub; Enterprise Meta>Environment; Enterprise Meta>Environment Portal; Acquire>It; Express>It; Conduct>It; Data Quality Environment; Query>It.

• Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships at all levels across IT and the business.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, along with a strong ability to lead and influence others.

• Experience working iteratively in a fast-paced agile environment.

• Demonstrated competency linking business strategy with IT technology initiatives

• Proven track record of leading and executing on critical business initiatives on-time and within budget.

• Demonstrated ability to drive change and work effectively across business and geographical boundaries.

• Expertise in evaluating technology and solution engineering, with strong focus on architecture and deployment of new technology

• Superior decision-making, client relationship, and vendor management skills.

• Familiar with Ab Intio, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Zookeeper, Oozie and Kafka

• Familiar with Public Cloud (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure) data engineering services

• Familiar with data management tools (i.e. Collibra)

• Background in ETL, data warehousing or data lake

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Strong business acumen including a broad understanding of Synchrony business processes and practices

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an agile team environment

• Financial Industry or Credit processing experience

• Experience with working on a geographically distributed team managing onshore/offshore resources with shifting priorities

• Previous experience working in client facing environment

• Proficient in the maintenance of data dictionaries and other information in Collibra

• Excellent analytical, organizational and influencing skills with a proven track record of successfully executing on assignments and initiatives

Eligibility Criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study with minimum 4+ years of technology experience or in lieu of a degree 6+ years of technology experience.

• Minimum 3+ years of financial services experience.

• Exposure to the following Ab Initio tools: GDE – Graphical Development Environment; Co>Operating System ; Control Center; Metadata Hub; Enterprise Meta>Environment; Enterprise Meta>Environment Portal; Acquire>It; Express>It; Conduct>It; Data Quality Environment; Query>It.

Work Timings: 3 PM to 12 AM IST

(This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details.)

For Internal Applicants:

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

• Inform your manager and 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)

• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L08+ Employees can apply

Grade/Level: 10

Job Family Group:

Information Technology