Job Description:

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum 6 years of experience with software engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 8 years of experience with software engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of application development experience.
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud development background.
• Critical Thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills

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.

ROLE SUMMARY/PURPOSE:

The Assistant Vice President, Principal Engineer 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 and event-driven architecture, microservice architecture, cloud technologies and the ability to influence and lead a team are musts.
This AVP will lead the development and the life cycle management of our consumer bank and credit servicing applications by creating and developing thoughtful solutions to anticipate bugs and maintain operational excellence. In short, you would be one of our technical experts and team leaders.
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, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful API’s, GraphQL APIs 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
• 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 24x7 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