Vice President, Senior Software Development Engineering Manager at Synchrony. Leading multi-layered engineering teams and overseeing cloud-native application development.
Responsibilities
Lead and manage a large, multi-layered team of software engineering managers, driving high performance and collaboration across teams.
Influence and guide multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) through all phases of the Agile development lifecycle, leveraging the Large Solution SAFe framework.
Expertise in DevOps practices and tooling, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, configuration management, and monitoring, to enable rapid, reliable, and secure software delivery across cloud environments.
Drive continuous process improvement by identifying bottlenecks, streamlining workflows, and implementing best practices to enhance team productivity, software quality, and delivery efficiency.
Drive the adoption and implementation of new technologies, supporting developers in technology migrations and continuous modernization efforts.
Define and enforce application architecture standards and best practices to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Apply expertise in technologies such as cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry), microservices architecture, Java Spring Boot, RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
Collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions.
Mentor and influence engineers at all levels, fostering a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and technical excellence.
Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards established by Synchrony Financial.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of the future-state technology architecture strategy, including application modernization and migration roadmaps.
Oversee application code quality through all stages of development, testing, and quality assurance processes.
Lead root cause analysis and incident management efforts, providing strategic direction to quickly resolve production issues.
Analyze production defects, troubleshoot systems, identify root causes, and drive timely resolution.
Stay current with emerging technologies, open-source projects, and programming languages; cultivate a culture of innovation.
Provide periodic 24x7 on-call support to ensure system reliability and operational continuity.
Identify opportunities to optimize efficiency and enhance system performance.
Manage relationships and collaboration with third-party vendors for software development and integration into company products.
Requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and a minimum of 10 years of experience with software engineering or in lieu of degree High School Diploma/GED and 15+ years of IT experience
A minimum of 6 years of people management experience
Benefits
Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
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