AVP, Information Security Engineer (L10)

Job ID: E2404084

Job Description:

Role Title: AVP, Information Security Engineer (L10)

Company Overview:

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 Great 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.

• Synchrony celebrates ~51% women diversity, 105+ people with disabilities, and ~50 veterans and veteran family members.

• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and 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, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles

Organizational Overview:

The AVP, Information Security Engineer is part of the Synchrony Information Security Cryptography Team, serving as a Cryptography, Information Security, and Secrets Management subject matter expert responsible for advancing Cryptography and Secrets Management multi-cloud platforms,, services, systems, and best practices at Synchrony. The candidate would have an engineering position focused on delivering critical/key enterprise data protection controls, efficient supporting processes, & comprehensive automation capabilities to protect & enable Synchrony’s Information Security Engineering strategy at scale. The candidate is expected to have a strong understanding of Cryptography/Secrets Management automation,controls, lifecycle management, operations, and security.

Role Summary/Purpose:

The AVP, Information Security Engineer will serve as a key role in safeguarding the organization systems, networks, and data. The position is responsible for designing and building Information Security capabilities, management of these capabilities, and the supporting technology.  In addition, this role will be responsible for acting as a trusted advisor for peers and other stakeholders within the organization. 

Essential/Key Responsibilities:

• Adopting and promoting engineering excellence by identifying efficiencies and synergies through means of automation, collaboration, and orchestration

• Collaborates with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, identify solutions to address, assist with proof of concepts and testing of solutions

• Implementation and technical lead responsibilities that include ongoing engineering/DevSecOps support for a global cryptography program which leverages a portfolio of data protection capabilities

• Managing technology from ground up and understanding gaps within the tech stack, including overlap with other technology and/or coverage, capability gaps 

• Maintaining technology from a business as usual (BAU) aspect by ensuring the proper change management, incident management, disaster recover processes are occurring and current 

• Participate as one of several technical leads on team of information security engineers

• Participate in authoring, editing, providing, or reviewing documentation (procedures, standards) to ensure a well-managed and mature security infrastructure

• Partners with peers within the organization to effectively prioritize work by using agile processes and ensuring risks, impediments, and asks are brought to leadership in a timely fashion 

• Plays a hands-on role in the engineering and implementation of security measures that protect the computer systems, networks, and information

• Plays a key role in designing and building solutions which safeguard the organizations platforms and systems 

• Proactively identifies problems and clearly articulates solutions and recommendations

• Provide day-to-day administration and support for infrastructure related to API, application security, firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection systems, PKI, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring tools, penetration testing, authentication, web filtering, identity management, or access control systems, and their associated logs and processes

• Providing engineering/operations support for technology and processes, ensuring superior customer service is being met, and identifying process improvements

• Serving as a mentor or a subject-matter expert (SME) to other InfoSec team members and/or stakeholders throughout the organization

• Serving as a SAFe Product Owner for cryptographic technologies, accountable for defining/leading/maintaining the team backlog and product roadmap

• Supporting a “you build it you own it” model – meaning the technology built by engineering is also supported from a wing-to-wing operations aspect

• Works closely with Information Security program manager, scrum master, and architects to convey technical impacts to development/engineering timeline and risks

• Work independently in identifying opportunities to improve engineering or other performance for Information Security/Technology & other functions across Synchrony

• Work with Information Security/Technology engineers and API developers to drive program delivery

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / other technical degree or Business Management and 4+years of IT experience, or in lieu of degree 6+ years of IT experience

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Information Security.

• Certifications in audit, big data, cloud, cybersecurity, governance, information security, privacy, risk preferred; AWS, Cloudera, GCP, GIAC, ISC2, ISACA is preferred.

• Proficient hands-on technical expertise with API, AWS, Cloudera, containers, encryption, Java, Linux, Perl, PKI, Python, secrets management, tokenization is strongly preferred

• Excellent oral communication and writing skills. Adept and presenting complex topics, influencing and executing with timely / actionable follow-through.

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to work under pressure and sustain productivity with multiple simultaneous projects across cross-functional engineering and operational information security teams

• Creativity and individual thinking, the ability to work both independently & with teams

• Cyber Security experience, especially around designing, building, managing solutions 

• DevOps and/or Engineering background

• Engineering and/or architecture experience

• Experience in modern coding languages such as Python 

• Experience with Agile, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum

• Good teamwork, oral and written communication

• Good understanding of security landscape as a whole

• Familiarity with problem and incident management, change management, notifications, and basic operational understanding of running and maintaining infrastructure 

• Strong and efficient problem-solving and analytical skills, willingness to learn 

• Understanding of information security practices and policies, including risks and threats

• Understanding of various public cloud deployment/platform/service models from a development, infrastructure, and information security aspect

• Working experience with API development, CI/CD pipelines, encryption methodologies, Jenkins, secrets management, tokenization

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / other technical degree or Business Management and 4+years of IT experience, or in lieu of degree 6+ years of IT experience.

WORK TIMINGS: 2pm to 11pm IST

(This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 08:00 AM Eastern Time – 01:30 PM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details.)

For Internal Applicants:

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

• Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday

• Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L08+ Employees can apply

Grade/Level: 10

Job Family Group:

Information Technology