Synchrony

AVP, Reliability Engineer

Synchrony

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: StamfordCaliforniaConnecticutUnited States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 - $170,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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 AWS, PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, Spring Java, and RESTful API’s are a must
  • Design data models to support complex business processes
  • Design responsive frontends using React
  • 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 web 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 Financial
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum 2 years of experience with solution architecture OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 4 years of experience with solution architecture
  • Minimum of 2 years of web application development experience
  • Experience building and consuming web services via REST
  • Experience with continuous integration environments
  • Experience with writing unit, integration, and UI test cases
  • Deep experience with responsive web design principles and cross device support
  • Strong experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
  • Experience using Splunk for production support
  • Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services
  • Working knowledge of the overall mobile industry
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence clients, team members, management and external groups
  • Strong attention to detail in a team environment
  • Strong oral and written communication, analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to analyze, use structured problem solving and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact and resolution options
Benefits
  • Choice and flexibility to work from home or in office
  • 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
solution architectureweb application developmentRESTcontinuous integrationunit testingintegration testingUI testingresponsive web designPivotal Cloud Foundrymicroservices
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsinfluenceattention to detailoral communicationwritten communicationanalytical skillsproblem solvingmentoringcollaborationflexibility
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeHigh School Diploma/GED