Data Engineer

Synchrony

full-time

Posted on: 10/7/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois, Kansas • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $75,000 - $120,000 per year

JuniorMid-Level

HadoopHBaseJavaKafkaMySQLNoSQLPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

Develop big data applications for Synchrony in Hadoop ecosystem
Participate in the agile development process including backlog grooming, coding, code reviews, testing and deployment
Work with team members to achieve business results in a fast paced and quickly changing environment
Pair with experienced data engineers to develop analytic applications leveraging technologies such as: Hadoop, NoSQL, In-memory Data Grids, Kafka, Spark, Ab Initio
Provide data analysis for Synchrony’s data ingestion, standardization and curation efforts ensuring all data is understood from a business context
Identify enablers and level of effort required to properly ingest and transform data for the data lake.
Profile data to assist with defining the data elements, propose business term mappings, and define data quality rules
Work with the Data Office to ensure that data dictionaries for all ingested and created data sets are properly documented in data dictionary repository
Ensure the lineage of all data assets are properly documented in the appropriate enterprise metadata repositories
Assist with the creation and implementation of data quality rules
Ensure the proper identification of sensitive data elements and critical data elements

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (such as Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics);
In lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED and minimum 2 years of Information Technology experience.
Hands-on experience writing shell scripts, complex SQL queries, Hive, Kafka, HBase, MySQL, Hadoop commands and Git.
Ability to write abstracted, reusable code components.
Programming experience in at least one of the following languages: Scala, Java or Python.
Analytical mindset.
Familiarity with code repository like bitbucket, GitHub and devops pipelines.
Willingness and aptitude to learn new technologies quickly.
Superior oral and written communication skills.
Ability to collaborate across teams of internal and external technical staff, business analysts, software support and operations staff.

Benefits

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HadoopNoSQLIn-memory Data GridsKafkaSparkAb InitioSQLHiveHBaseMySQL

analytical mindsetsuperior oral communication skillssuperior written communication skillscollaborationadaptability

Bachelor's degreeHigh School DiplomaGED