AVP, Solution Architect - OnePay

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

Synchrony is looking for a talented and passionate Solution Architect to join our team, focused on supporting integrations and resiliency for OnePay, a Synchrony partner serving millions of customers in a new, first-of-its-kind credit card program for Walmart.

As the AVP, Solution Architect specializing in reliability and partner integration for OnePay, you will serve as the technical lead and SME driving end-to-end solution architecture for all systems and integrations specific to OnePay partnership initiatives. In this role, you will champion API stability, performance, and scalability, while shepherding solution design, technical delivery, and integration best practices across multiple agile teams and internal/external stakeholders.

This role calls for a unique balance of technical acumen and business insight to ensure frictionless onboarding and seamless, secure interoperability between Synchrony systems and OnePay’s ecosystem. As the primary technical liaison for OnePay integrations, you will be a key driver in delivery and ongoing reliability of our joint platforms.

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership for OnePay Initiatives:
  Serve as the principal architect for all technical solutions involving OnePay, including the design, integration, and ongoing support of mission-critical APIs and partner interfaces.

• API Reliability and Resilience:
  Architect, implement, and continuously improve API strategies to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and consistency for OnePay-related services. Lead root-cause analysis and proactive reliability enhancements tailored to OnePay’s business transactions.

• Partner Integration:
  Collaborate cross-functionally with OnePay’s product and engineering teams to define and deliver E2E technical integrations, including authentication, data exchange protocols, and workflow handoffs between Synchrony and OnePay. Recommend and implement integration patterns to maximize business process continuity and data integrity.

• Solution Design & Governance:
  Evaluate OnePay’s current and future integration needs; translate requirements into scalable platform solutions aligned with enterprise standards and OnePay’s SLAs and regulatory obligations.

• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Act as the technical point of contact for all OnePay-specific projects, providing clear and actionable insights to Synchrony and OnePay stakeholders, including product managers, C-level executives, and external vendor teams.

• Mentorship & Enablement:
  Mentor and coach multiple Agile development teams (including partner teams) delivering on OnePay initiatives, ensuring alignment with architectural guidelines and quality standards throughout the SDLC.

• Technology Selection & Innovation:
  Assess and recommend technologies (APIs, integration platforms) fit for the OnePay partnership, balancing architecture best practices, enterprise constraints, and OnePay’s business objectives.

• Continuous Improvement:
  Identify opportunities for process automation and reliability engineering in all OnePay integrations; promote API-first design, monitoring, and robust error-handling strategies.

• Code Management & Repository Setup:
  Establish, configure, and maintain code repositories specific to OnePay projects, ensuring best practices for version control, code organization, access management, and secure collaboration between Synchrony and OnePay development teams.

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field AND at least 7 years’ experience across multiple IT areas OR 10 years’ application development experience (in lieu of degree)

• Minimum 5 years full-stack development using Spring (Spring Boot), Java EE, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern UI frameworks

• At least 3 years’ experience with Junit, Jmeter, Postman or comparable testing tools

• At least 2 years’ hands-on experience with React JS, Angular JS, Node.js or similar frameworks

• At least 2 years’ experience on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, or similar PaaS

• At least 2 years’ Apigee or comparable API platform experience; demonstrated experience managing production APIs and troubleshooting integration issues with external partners

• Prior hands-on responsibility for large-scale partner integrations—with direct management of cross-company initiatives preferred

• Demonstrated communication skills (written and verbal) to engage with OnePay’s business/technical stakeholders

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong working knowledge of the fintech/payments landscape, ideally with direct integration experience for consumer financing or payment partners like OnePay

• Deep experience with service-oriented and event-driven architectures

• Demonstrated Agile methodology experience (Scrum, Kanban)

• Critical thinking, creativity, and a solution-driven mindset

• Proven record building, deploying, and supporting cloud-based applications

• Strong familiarity with API gateways and best practices for secure, scalable & reliable API deployments

• Experience developing and supporting secure mobile solutions (native and mobile web)

Grade/Level: 11

The salary range for this position is 115,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.

Eligibility Requirements:

• You must be 18 years or older

• You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

• You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

• You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

• New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles.  Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months’ time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles.  Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months’ time in position before they can post.  All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don’t meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.  We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. 

Our Commitment:

When you join us, you’ll be part of an inclusive culture where your individual skills, experience, and voice are not only heard – but valued. Together, we’re building a future where we can all belong, connect, and turn ideals into action. More than 50% of our workforce is engaged in our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where community and passion intersect to offer a safe space to learn and grow.

 

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We’re proud to have an award-winning culture for all. 

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Job Family Group:

Information Technology