AVP, API Engineer

About the role

The Assistant Vice President, Principal Software Engineer leads a team in a hands-on system design and architecture environment, ensuring timely project completion and adherence to specifications. They drive innovation and excellence in consumer bank and credit servicing applications.

Responsibilities

• Influence many agile development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle through SAFe
• Implement new technologies and assist developers migrating to new technologies
• Architect applications across the full stack, with expertise in PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful APIs
• Design data models to support complex business processes
• Drive a CI/CD strategy using Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy stack
• Influence and collaborate with software developers, UX designers, product managers, application architects, and customer application experts to create amazing apps
• Mentor and influence all levels of the team
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and technology standards set by Synchrony
• Craft and maintain the future state technology architectural strategy, along with application modernization and migration roadmap
• Lead Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, 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
• 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

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 8 years of experience with software engineering OR, in lieu of degree, High School Diploma/GED 10 years of experience with software engineering
• Minimum 6 years of application development experience
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud development background
• Critical Thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills
• Experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST
• Expertise with continuous integration environments
• Experience with writing unit, integration, and UI test cases
• Strong experience with responsive web design principles and cross device support
• Familiarity with Database Architecture, Modeling, and familiarity with MySQL & SQL, Gemfire
• Familiarity with JSON, REST and XML based web services
• Working knowledge of the overall mobile industry
• Excellence in technical communication with technical and non-technical peers
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence clients, team members, management, and external groups
• Excellent attention to detail in a team environment
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience utilizing Dev AI tools e.g. GitHub Copilot
• Ability to analyze, use structured problem solving and available tools to troubleshoot systems, identify root cause, action plans, impact, and resolution options