Senior Data Engineer Lead — AWS/Redshift & Data Warehousing

Synchrony Financial; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony Financial is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead efforts in building and migrating on-prem data warehouse solutions to AWS, including Amazon Redshift. You will drive technical leadership in a fast-paced, evolving environment within Synchrony.

The role emphasizes design and implementation of scalable data applications, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and staying current with data engineering best practices. Travel flexibility may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of technology experience in consumer banking or related fields, or equivalent.
• Strong experience with large-scale relational databases and cloud (AWS) environments.
• Deep knowledge of ETL, data warehousing, cloud technologies (AWS) and analytics concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data applications on on-prem and AWS to process terabytes of data.
• Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and product management to define requirements.
• Lead a technical team to deliver data solutions aligned with business goals.

Skills

ETL

Data warehousing

AWS

Amazon Redshift

Ab Initio

SQL

on-prem RDBMS

DevOps

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

Ab Initio

Redshift tooling

Job description

Synchrony Financial is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead efforts in building and migrating on-prem data warehouse solutions to AWS, including Amazon Redshift. You will drive technical leadership in a fast-paced, evolving environment within Synchrony.

The role emphasizes design and implementation of scalable data applications, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and staying current with data engineering best practices. Travel flexibility may be required.