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VP, Senior Data Engineering Manager (L14)

Synchrony
IND
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Data engineeringEnterprise data pipelinesData modelingPublic cloud platformsCloud data transformation and migrationData governance

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Role Summary

Lead a data engineering organization responsible for enterprise data pipelines, products, models, AI, analytics, and business intelligence.

Partner with technology, product, analytics, risk, operations, and business teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable data solutions.

Lead modernization and migration of data assets, pipelines, and products to cloud-based solutions.

Coach and develop talent within a diverse, inclusive, and matrixed organization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide vision and strategic direction for data engineers delivering modern data pipelines, models, and products.
  • Lead cloud data transformation and migration initiatives and define target-state engineering standards.
  • Drive AI adoption, automation, reusable frameworks, pipeline standardization, testing automation, and continuous improvement.
  • Advance practices for ingestion, transformation, data quality, metadata, lineage, observability, orchestration, deployment, protection, and consumption.
  • Oversee data models and testing practices that enable trusted, secure, usable enterprise data.
  • Partner with technology, business, risk, governance, and compliance stakeholders to mitigate risk and meet regulatory expectations.
  • Champion SAFe agile delivery across multiple priorities, projects, and release trains.
  • Develop, coach, and retain a high-performing team through career growth, inclusive leadership, and succession planning.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree and at least 12 years of IT experience, or at least 14 years of IT experience in lieu of a degree.
  • At least 5 years of data engineering experience leveraging public cloud capabilities.
  • At least 7 years of experience in a large, complex organization.
  • At least 9 years of experience leading enterprise-scale data engineering delivery.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business, technology, risk, and executive stakeholders.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Experience building consumer-focused data pipelines and products with ownership, documentation, data contracts, quality controls, and support for varied use cases.
  • Experience with cloud transformation and data application migration using AWS public cloud services.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, Kafka, Hadoop, Oracle, AbInitio, Spark, Python, SageMaker Studio, and SAS is preferred.
  • Experience leading complex technology programs and functional teams.
  • Knowledge of agile development, testing practices, engineering lifecycle, and delivery execution.
  • Experience in financial services, banking, credit, payments, or another highly regulated industry is preferred.

Work Timings

  • The role requires flexibility for an overlap between Eastern Time and India Standard Time.
  • The required meeting window is 06:00 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern Time, with remaining hours flexible subject to business needs.

Company and Organization

Synchrony's Data & Analytics Engineering organization builds scalable, secure data pipelines, models, and reusable data products.

The organization supports business value, operational excellence, regulatory readiness, and customer experiences.

Role Classification

Level / Grade: 14.

Job Family Group: Information Technology.

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