Overview :

- Location: Hyderabad, India; India; India; Kolkata, India
- Salary: N/A

About Us : Synchrony is more than a financial services company, we’re a team of passionate innovators committed to delivering best-in-class solutions that support millions of customers across the U.S. With a bold focus on technology, data, and digital innovation, we create meaningful experiences that simplify lives and enable financial wellness.

When you join Synchrony, you become part of an inclusive culture where your voice matters, your growth is championed, and your work drives impactful results.

- Job ID
- 2601818
- Category
- Technology
- Date posted
- 07/02/2026

Role Title : AVP, Senior Product Engineer - (L10) **

Company Overview :Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

- We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Outstanding Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.
- We provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
- We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities for all to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview :



This role will be part of the Data Architecture & Analytics group part of Engineering organization.

- Data team is responsible for designing and developing scalable data pipelines for efficient data ingestion, transformation, and loading(ETL).
- Data team owns and manages different tools platforms which provides an environment for designing and building different data solutions.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate recent data sources and ensure data quality and consistency.
- Building and maintaining data models to facilitate data access and analysis by Data Scientists and Analysts

Role Summary/Purpose : We are looking for an strong Individual contributor, Ab Initio Platform Engineer, to be part of Data Platform for the mission critical and low latency analytic environment leveraging Big Data technologies and AWS services.

Key Responsibilities :

- Administer and maintain Ab Initio clusters in Hadoop environment across on-premise and cloud - production, DR and non-production.
- Administer the Ab Initio Product Suite ( Co>Op system, Acquire>It, Control Center, Metadata Hub, Authentication Gateway) on Linux operating system.
- Handle all Ab Initio environments, security, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
- Perform Ab Initio cluster maintenance with patching, Co>Op upgrade, EME backup/recovery, user provisioning, automation of routine tasks, troubleshooting of failed jobs, configure and maintain security policies.




- Upgrade Ab Initio cluster to latest version that includes all the bug fixes, security enhancements and current features
- Work on support cases and resolve the user issues.
- Identify product related issues and work with vendors to have them fixed
- Identify infrastructure related issues such as disk failures and work with Infra teams to fix
- Work on new component exploration and proof of concepts
- Automation of manual tasks through Ab Initio/shell scripts

Required Skills/Knowledge :

- Experience in Ab Initio administration with latest Co>Op system and Ab Initio products (like Acquire>It, Control Center, Metadata Hub, Authentication Gateway).
- Significant experience with and knowledge of Big Data technologies such Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, different data file formats, NoSQL engines.
- Exposure to Public Cloud platforms and understanding of various Cloud Services
- Knowledge of basic Linux Administration.
- General operational expertise such as good troubleshooting skills, understanding of system’s capacity, bottlenecks, basics of memory, CPU, OS, storage, and networks. Day to day tasks
- Good verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information and provide advice to management.
- Experience on DevOps CI/CD pipelines for code deployments
- Minimum 6+ years of financial services experience
- Minimum 6+ years of experience managing Data platforms.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships at all levels across IT and the business.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, along with a strong ability to lead and influence others.
- Experience working iteratively in a fast-paced agile environme

📌 Avp, Senior Product Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Synchrony
📍 Hyderabad