**Role Summary/Purpose:**

The VP – Data Architecture Governance leader is a strategic leadership role within Synchrony’s Data & Analytics Engineering organization responsible for enterprise data platform architecture governance, risk & controls oversight, and architecture decision leadership. This role ensures enterprise-wide alignment of data architecture standards, reference patterns, and control requirements to support Synchrony’s evolving data landscape and long-term business objectives.

As a leader, you will work extensively with senior architects, engineering teams, Internal Audit, risk and compliance functions to design “controls-by-design” architecture guardrails and ensure they are implemented and evidenced through engineering workflows —across AWS cloud services (e.g., Redshift, EMR, SageMaker, etc.), Ab Initio, Kafka, Hadoop, Oracle, Snowflake and SAS - which collectively support Synchrony’s enterprise-wide data, AI and analytics needs to enable informed de...