Location
Stamford
Posted
May 30, 2026
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Job Description
**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...
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...