AVP – Senior Data Engineer

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

We are looking for a Senior Big Data Engineer to develop consumer-centric, low latency analytic environment leveraging Big Data technologies and to transform the legacy systems.

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implement a big data enterprise data lake, BI and analytics system using Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Ab Initio, Redshift, Kafka, and Oracle

• Work closely with product owner, scrum master, and architects to convey technical impacts to development timeline and risks

• Coordinate with data engineers and platform administrators to drive program delivery.

• Advocate technical development, DevOps process, and application standards across enterprise data lake and enterprise data warehouse

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering;, Master's degree preferred

• 4+ years hands-on working experience in Hadoop, Spark (Scala and Python), Ab Initio, Kafka, MapReduce, HDFS, and Hive

• Understand CI/CD. Fluent with Git and Jenkins

• Proven ability to organize/manage multiple priorities coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever-changing business needs

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Adept and presenting complex topics, influencing and executing with timely / actionable follow-through

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to convert information into practical deliverables. Use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems

• Experience working in real-time data ingestion is required

• Experienced in sourcing and processing structured, semi-structured and unstructured data

• Experience in Data Cleansing/Transformation, Performance Tuning

• Experience in Storm, Kafka, and Flume would be a plus

• Hortonworks or Cloudera or MapR Certification would be a plus

• Basic knowledge of Big Data administration (Cloudera Manager)

Desired Characteristics:

• Extensive experience working with data warehouses and big data platforms

• Outstanding written and verbal skills and the ability to influence and motivate teams

Grade/Level: 10

The salary range for this position is 100,000.00 - 170,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.

Eligibility Requirements:

• You must be 18 years or older

• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles.  Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months’ time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles.  Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months’ time in position before they can post.  All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don’t meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. 

Our Commitment:

When you join us, you’ll be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where your skills, experience, and voice are not only heard—but valued. We celebrate the differences in all of us and believe that our individual, unique perspectives is what makes Synchrony truly a great place to work. Together, we’re building a future where we can all belong, connect and turn ideals into action. Through the power of our 8 Diversity Networks+, with more than 60% of our workforce engaged, you’ll find community to connect with an opportunity to go beyond your passions.

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Reasonable Accommodation Notice:

• Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

• If you need special accommodations, please call our Career Support Line so that we can discuss your specific situation. We can be reached at 1-866-301-5627.   Representatives are available from 8am – 5pm Monday to Friday, Central Standard Time

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