Role Title

AVP, Principal Data Engineer (L11)

Role Summary / Purpose

We are looking for an AVP, Principal Data Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical leader who both drives and delivers, writing production-quality code, owning end-to-end data pipeline design and delivery, and setting the technical direction for the team. This role will lead the design and delivery of cloud-native, event-driven data platforms that power real-time transactional workflows and AI-ready data products, while modernizing legacy data systems and influencing architectural decisions across Synchrony s enterprise data platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and lead production-grade data engineering applications across agile teams, combining hands-on coding with technical leadership, design reviews, and end-to-end delivery ownership.
- Design and implement scalable ELT/ETL and 24x7 real-time event streaming pipelines using Ab Initio Continuous Flows/Spark Streaming and Kafka ecosystems (AWS MSK and Confluent Kafka), ensuring fault tolerance, strong delivery guarantees (idempotency/exactly-once where applicable), and near-zero downtime deployments.
- Own event-driven data workflows that process high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions across mission-critical systems, and build/operate Lakehouse data infrastructure on AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift), using Ab Initio (must-have) and Spark as core engineering tool.
- Develop AI-ready data products and feature pipelines for downstream analytics and operational AI use cases, and lead cloud migration efforts to modernize legacy batch ETL into cloud-native,



event-driven architecture.
- Collaborate with solution architects to translate designs into robust, scalable implementations; partner with product owners and program managers in a SAFe/Scaled Agile environment to align delivery with business priorities.
- Define and enforce data engineering standards, coding best practices, CI/CD, and DevOps processes; mentor engineers and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.

Required Skills / Knowledge

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of experience in ELT/ETL, data warehousing, or Lakehouse engineering; or, in lieu of a degree with 10+ years of equivalent hands-on experience.
- 8+ years of full lifecycle data engineering experience (design, development, testing, documentation, performance tuning, and production support) across large-scale technologies including Ab Initio, Kafka (MSK/Confluent), Spark, Hive, RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL), and AWS services (EMR, MSK, Glue, S3, Redshift, IAM).
- 5+ years of experience with 24x7 real-time/streaming pipelines and 2+ years with AWS cloud platform engineering, including infrastructure-as-code and containerized workloads.




- Experience leading or mentoring data engineering teams in an Agile/Secure delivery environment.
- Ability to travel for business as needed.

Desired Skills / Knowledge

- Proven experience as a hands-on data engineering technical lead in a SAFe environment, owning mission-critical data platform applications with end-to-end accountability across batch and real-time pipelines in a DevOps model.
- Experience in FinTech, credit card, or banking environments handling sensitive data in a regulated context, with the ability to communicate complex technical topics and influence decisions across IT and business stakeholders.
- AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Data Engineer certification (or actively pursuing). Exposure to agentic AI or LLM-integrated data workflows is a plus.
- Thought leadership such as articles, publications, or open-source contributions in data engineering or cloud data platforms is a plus.

Eligibility Criteria

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of experience in ELT/ETL, Data Warehousing, or large-scale data platform engineering on distributed systems and public cloud (AWS preferred).
- In lieu of a degree with 10+ years of equivalent hands-on experience in large-scale data environments.

Work Timings

3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST

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📌 AVP, Principal Data Engineer (Telangana)
🏢 Synchrony
📍 Telangana