VP Application Modernization – Cloud Engineering Lead

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Synchrony

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10,000+ employees

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Banking • Finance • Fintech

Synchrony is a financial services company that provides a variety of financing solutions for everyday purchases. They offer specialized healthcare financing through their CareCredit product, along with online savings and business financing options. Synchrony Bank serves as their banking division, enabling customers to manage their retail and healthcare financing needs efficiently.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for application modernization, cloud engineering, and cloud operations • Own modernization assessments for monolithic Java applications • Lead decommission of monolithic applications into microservices • Provide cloud platform governance, standards, procedures, and automated workflows • Collaborate across CTO, Engineering, Security, and Business stakeholders • Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring/observability • Manage site stability, performance, reliability, and maintain uptime for production environments • Develop and mature a multi-environment observability stack • Strive for automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity • Lead root cause analysis for complex production incidents

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience • 10–12 years of experience in software engineering / cloud engineering / platform engineering with demonstrated delivery of enterprise modernization initiatives • 3+ years in team leadership responsibilities • Strong hands-on expertise in Java (e.g., Spring / Spring Boot) • Proven hands-on experience migrating applications to AWS • Demonstrated experience breaking monolithic applications into microservices • Strong experience with containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS) • Strong knowledge of CI/CD platforms and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub Actions; Terraform/CloudFormation) • Experience with observability tools/practices • Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals

🏖️ Benefits

• Best-in-class employee benefits • Work-life integration programs • Career advancement opportunities • Upskilling opportunities • Flexibility in work arrangements