AVP, Principal Data Engineer

Synchrony; Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking an AVP Principal Data Engineer to lead the development of a consumer-centric analytic environment. This role demands expertise in data engineering and offers a fast-paced work environment with responsibilities in high-level decision making, team leadership, and data solutions development.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years in ELT/ETL/Data warehousing or 8-9 years with certification.
• Experience in Agile environments and mission-critical data applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead data engineering applications in agile teams.
• Implement ETL/ELT on big data platforms and oversee production deployment.
• Mentor and coach team members.

Skills

Data Engineering

Agile Environment

ETL

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Certification with 8-9 years of relevant experience

Tools

Cloudera Hadoop

Ab Initio

Spark

Hive

Kafka

RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL)

NoSQL (Cassandra)

AWS

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Role Summary/Purpose:

We are looking for an AVP Principal Data Engineer to lead the development of a consumer-centric, low latency analytic environment leveraging data technologies and transforming legacy systems. This role offers an exciting, fast-paced, and challenging work environment, playing a key role in high-level decision making across Synchrony.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and lead data engineering applications in highly agile teams.
• Lead a data engineering team and contribute individually when required.
• Implement ETL/ELT on big data platforms like Cloudera Hadoop, using Ab Initio, Spark, Hive, Kafka, RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL), NoSQL (Cassandra), and cloud solutions.
• Oversee design, development, testing, and production deployment.
• Work with batch and real-time data pipelines in a DevOps environment.
• Collaborate with product owners, managers, and scrum teams in an Agile framework.
• Partner with architects to design scalable, resilient data applications.
• Drive program delivery and technical standards across data lakes and warehouses.
• Mentor and coach team members, promote company values, and handle other duties as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 4-5 years of experience in ELT/ETL/Data warehousing.
• Or, in lieu of degree, certification and 8-9 years of relevant experience.

Desired Characteristics:

• Experience as a Data Engineering Lead in an Agile environment.
• Deep understanding of ETL, data lakes, and analytics.
• Experience managing mission-critical data applications.
• Proficiency with batch and real-time pipelines, AWS, and data automation.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with credit card, banking, or fintech sectors preferred.

The salary range is $110,000 - $185,000 USD annually, plus potential bonuses. Actual compensation depends on experience and skills.

Eligibility requirements include being 18+, having a high school diploma or equivalent, and passing background checks. Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We do not sponsor visas.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring equal opportunity employment.