AVP, Analytics – Metadata Developer

Role Overview

• Stay current on Ab Initio product releases and industry trends, proactively proposing enhancements that improve outcomes for our stakeholders
• Provide knowledge transfer, coaching, and implementation guidance to team members to promote consistent patterns, standards, and best practices
• Support evaluation and development of forward-looking metadata capabilities, including enablement for cloud, AI/ML, and other emerging use cases (e.g., semantic metadata, tagging, and discoverability)
• Contribute to root cause analysis and remediation of data issues related to our metadata platforms and/or processes
• Partner with data governance, engineering, and analytics stakeholders to ensure metadata quality, lineage completeness, and consistent adoption of platform capabilities
• Create and maintain operational runbooks and support documentation to enable consistent operations, troubleshooting, and ongoing maintenance by the broader team
• Execute thorough functional and non-functional testing, and remediate defects to ensure enhancements meet performance, security, and reliability expectations
• Implement platform changes (e.g., metadata models, configurations, integrations, automation, and workflows) in accordance with established Agile and change management practices
• Produce clear, scalable solution designs for enhancements, prioritizing simplicity, reusability, and long-term supportability
• Elicit, document, and validate requirements for assigned platform enhancements, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and stakeholder needs
• Identify and recommend platform improvement opportunities that increase usability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of Synchrony’s current metadata platform implementation, including configurations, integrations, and operational processes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or in lieu of a Bachelor Degree, a minimum of 11 years as described.
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience to include: 7 years of Ab Initio Metadata Hub development, including technical design, coding / implementation and ongoing support
• 7 years of experience with Agile methodology and tools
• 7 years of relevant data management / governance or project/program management experience
• Strong interpersonal skills to lead cross-functional teams, foster collaboration and drive consensus across stakeholder groups
• Experience using Agile and SAFE Agile methodologies
• Ability to direct technical teams and mentor/coach team members
• Exceptional problem-solving, communication and leadership abilities
• Credit card domain knowledge is desired
• Experience working in financial services in the credit card domain is desired

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being
• career advancement and upskilling opportunities