VP, Solution Architect – Digital ServicingSynchrony Financial • Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

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VP, Solution Architect – Digital Servicing

Synchrony Financial

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

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Job ID: 2600181 Job Description: Role Summary/Purpose The 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 architecture using UI, API, and full-stack designs, and the ability to influence and lead multiple teams is crucial. This VP will lead the architecture and support the development of our digital servicing applications by architecting and designing thoughtful solutions and maintain operational excellence, with a particular focus on scalability, performance and security as part of the overall solution design. The Solution Architect will architect complex business solutions by partnering with business and technology leaders to understand key challenges as well as produce process flows and system interaction diagrams to help drive these solutions. 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. You are the right candidate if you… Have passion: Sure, you can code, but are you passionate about application development in a complex ecosystem, using the latest technologies, open-source projects and languages? Have common sense: Building is important, but do you think through designs to ensure they’re the best solutions first? Are slightly obsessed with solution design: Do you focus on failure scenarios, performance, data integrity, security…all the good stuff? Are a leader: This VP will influence a large cross functional team to deliver awesome cutting-edge customer facing 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. Are you ready to get into the weeds on complex technology solutions and be willing to identify the right tool for the right solution, not simply falling back on what you’re comfortable with? Essential Responsibilities Design and guide the architecture for complex systems, ensuring that it is secure, scalable, performant, adaptable, and meets business needs. Assist in crafting and maintaining the architecture roadmap, future state technology architectural strategy, along with application modernization and migration roadmap. Design solutions to business needs by documenting systems, data, and business logic of an end-to-end business process. Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards set by Synchrony. Be a leading architect for development teams, influencing them through all phases of Agile development life cycle. Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create exceptional application solutions. Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies. Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams. Design data models to support complex business processes. 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. Lead Agile sprints as the technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews. Participate in troubleshooting production defects, root cause analysis, incident reports, and provide direction in problem resolution. 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. Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned. Qualifications/Requirements Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience with software engineering experience OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 10 years of experience with software engineering. Proven strong solution architecture skills and experience in designing complex technical solutions. Experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud native design patterns. Experience in architecting applications across the full stack including Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, RESTful APIs, API Gateway and Spring Framework. Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and related open-source technologies. Familiarity with JSON, REST, and XML based web services. Experience with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with Oracle, MySQL,

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