VP, Cloud Data Architecture & Modernization

Synchrony; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking a VP, Cloud Data Solution Architect to lead the strategic design of its enterprise data ecosystem in the cloud. You will drive target-state cloud data architecture, governance, and modernization initiatives to enable secure, scalable data platforms for operations, analytics, and AI.

The role requires partnering with senior business, technology, security, risk, data, analytics, and product stakeholders to modernize legacy data ecosystems and promote cloud-native capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Data Management, or related field with 8+ years in IT, data architecture, or cloud architecture OR 10+ years hands-on experience in those roles.
• 5+ years designing, modernizing, or migrating data platforms in cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms, data lakes, lakehouse architectures, data warehousing, IAM, security, data protection, data integration, and analytics ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture thought leadership across cloud data platforms, data lakehouse and data mesh patterns, event-driven architecture, API-enabled data sharing, semantic layers, and modern AI/analytics ecosystems.
• Shape and maintain target-state architecture and modernization roadmaps aligned with business priorities and long-term scalability.
• Support architectural evaluations and trade‑off decisions across cloud-native services, data storage models, query performance, security controls, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to assess current-state environments, identify modernization opportunities, and improve usability and performance of enterprise data products.
• Establish and promote architecture principles, reference architectures, standards, and reusable migration frameworks for secure, governed cloud data solutions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Data architecture

Enterprise architecture

Agile

JIRA

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree required

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Synchrony is seeking a VP, Cloud Data Solution Architect to lead the strategic design of its enterprise data ecosystem in the cloud. You will drive target-state cloud data architecture, governance, and modernization initiatives to enable secure, scalable data platforms for operations, analytics, and AI.

The role requires partnering with senior business, technology, security, risk, data, analytics, and product stakeholders to modernize legacy data ecosystems and promote cloud-native capabilities