Application Modernization & Cloud Engineering Lead (L12)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for application modernization, cloud engineering, and cloud operations; drive execution, delivery commitments, and talent development.
• Own modernization assessments for monolithic Java applications and define phased migration strategies to AWS (rehost/replatform/refactor), including sequencing, risk management, and dependency planning.
• Lead decommission of monolithic applications into microservices aligned to business domains and bounded contexts; guide API design, service contracts, and integration standards.
• Provide cloud platform governance, standards, procedures, and automated workflows, focusing on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and auditability.
• Collaborate across CTO, Engineering, Security, and Business stakeholders to prioritize, plan, and communicate modernization and cloud transformation progress.
• Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring/observability, emergency response, capacity planning, setting and maintaining SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets, and creating dashboards.
• Manage site stability, performance, reliability, and maintain uptime for production environments; partner with stakeholders to ensure production readiness and runbooks.
• Develop and mature a multi-environment observability stack (metrics/logs/traces) and extend it to predict capacity needs based on usage patterns.
• Strive for automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity (self-service pipelines, standardized templates, reusable patterns).
• Lead root cause analysis for complex production incidents in distributed Java/microservices environments and drive corrective/preventive actions.
• Hands-on expertise with design, deploying and troubleshooting cloud services.
• Qualifications/Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• 10-12 years of experience in software engineering / cloud engineering / platform engineering with demonstrated delivery of enterprise modernization initiatives.
• 3+ years in team leadership responsibilities (people management and/or delivery leadership), including coaching/mentoring engineers and driving outcomes in Agile delivery models.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java (e.g., Spring / Spring Boot) and building/operating production services.
• Proven hands-on experience migrating applications to AWS, including modernization/refactoring where required.
• Demonstrated experience breaking monolithic applications into microservices, including service boundaries, data separation strategies, and service-to-service communicati

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Job Description: Role Title : Application Modernization & Cloud Engineering Lead (L12) 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. We 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 for all to take up leadership roles. Organizational Overview: This role will be part of the Cloud & Platform group part of CTO organization. Cloud team is responsible for the SYF public cloud platform & services. Govern health, performance, capacity, and costs of resources and ensure adherence to service levels. Build well defined processes for cloud application development and service enablement. Role Summary/Purpose: The Application Modernization & Cloud Engineering Lead will serve as a technical and people leader responsible for modernizing enterprise applications and enabling strong cloud engineering and cloud operations practices on AWS. This role requires a blend of modernization architecture, engineering leadership, and hands-on delivery experience to migrate applications to the cloud, transform monolithic systems into scalable microservices-based architectures, and improve reliability through automation and operational excellence. This position acts as a pivotal bridge between application engineering, cloud engineering, information security, DevOps and Agile delivery teams, ensuring technical excellence, operational stability, and scalable cloud adoption aligned with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and evolving technology landscapes.

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