AVP, Principal Mobile Engineer

Job Description:

Role Title: AVP, Principal Mobile Engineer L11

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:

Synchrony's Engineering Team is a dynamic and innovative team dedicated to driving technological excellence. As a member of this Team, you'll play a pivotal role in designing and developing cutting-edge tech stack and solutions that redefine industry standards.

The Credit Card that we use every day to purchase our essentials and later settle the bills - A simple process that we all are used to on a day-to-day basis. Now, consider the vast complexity hidden behind this seemingly simple process, operating tirelessly for millions of cardholders. The sheer volume of data processed is mind-boggling. Fortunately, advanced technology stands ready to automate and manage this constant torrent of information, ensuring smooth transactions around the clock, 365 days a year. Our collaborative environment encourages creative problem-solving and fosters career growth. Join us to work on diverse projects, from fintech to data analytics, and contribute to shaping the future of technology. If you're passionate about engineering and innovation, Synchrony's Engineering Team is the place to be.

Role Summary/Purpose:

The AVP, Principal Mobile Engineer - Digital Servicing is a senior individual contributor and architecture role responsible for driving cross-platform mobile architecture, technical strategy, and mobile platform engineering across the DSE India Mobile organization. This is not a people management role — this engineer leads through technical depth, architectural vision, and hands-on influence across iOS and Android platforms, with a strong understanding of backend services and API architecture that underpin the mobile ecosystem.

The Principal Mobile Engineer owns the technical direction for mobile platform capabilities — shared frameworks, infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling — and defines cross-platform standards that ensure consistency, quality, and long-term scalability across Synchrony's mobile applications. This role partners closely with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, QE leads, and platform engineers to drive coherent technical direction across multiple agile teams in a cross-shore development environment.

Can be iOS or Android primary, but operates across both platforms. AI fluency is a core expectation — this engineer actively leverages and champions AI-assisted engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive cross-platform mobile architecture strategy spanning iOS and Android, ensuring consistency in patterns, standards, and technical direction across multiple agile teams

• Own and evolve mobile platform architecture — shared frameworks, SDK foundations, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that improve reliability, velocity, and developer experience across the mobile organization

• Lead architectural design and review for complex features, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, and scalability goals

• Operate as the senior technical authority across both iOS and Android — primary expertise in one platform, with strong working fluency in the other

• Partner with backend and platform engineers on shared services architecture, and infrastructure decisions that impact mobile delivery

• Drive technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing strategy, build reliability, and release engineering across mobile teams

• Drive mobile CI/CD platform strategy — build pipeline optimization, shared workflows, policy enforcement (code quality, security scanning), and build reliability automation

• Contribute to observability and release reliability — dashboards, crash-free session tracking, performance monitoring, and rollout stability

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns — including AI-assisted development workflows, code generation, and automated testing approaches

• Actively leverage AI tools (GitHub Copilot, LLM integrations) for architecture exploration, code generation, refactoring, test automation, and documentation — and champion AI-native engineering practices across mobile teams

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture spikes, proof-of-concepts, and reference implementations for complex or foundational capabilities

• Inform technical direction, capability gaps, and team composition from an architecture perspective

• Ensure compliance with security, accessibility, and architecture governance standards

• Participate in PI planning, ART syncs, and cross-train coordination — owning and escalating architectural risks

• Mentor and coach senior engineers and Tech Leads on architecture, design patterns, and technical decision-making — raising the overall technical bar without direct reporting relationships

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Deep expertise in native mobile development — iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit) and/or Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) — with ability to operate across both platforms

• Demonstrated experience defining and driving mobile architecture at scale across multiple teams or products

• Strong understanding of mobile architecture patterns — MVVM, Clean Architecture, VIPER, modularization, and dependency injection

• Experience designing and building shared mobile frameworks, SDKs, or platform libraries consumed by multiple teams

• Solid understanding of backend architecture — RESTful APIs, microservices, API gateway patterns, and mobile-backend integration

• Experience with mobile CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and release engineering (Bitrise, Xcode Cloud, Gradle, Fastlane, or similar)

• Strong understanding of software design principles — SOLID, clean architecture, domain-driven design

• Experience with asynchronous programming, reactive patterns, and concurrency models on mobile platforms

• Proficiency with code quality tooling — static analysis, security scanning, unit/integration testing frameworks

• Understanding of observability and monitoring for mobile applications — crash analytics, performance monitoring, and release health metrics

• Demonstrated AI fluency — active, productive use of AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot or equivalent) in daily engineering work

• Experience working in Agile environments at scale (SAFe or similar) with cross-functional teams

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive decisions across teams without direct authority

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows — code generation, automated testing, AI-powered code review, and LLM integration for developer productivity

• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts — developer experience tooling, golden paths, internal developer platforms

• Experience architecting mobile SDK distribution and versioning strategies (SPM, CocoaPods, Maven/Gradle)

• Experience with service virtualization, contract testing, and mock infrastructure for mobile development

• Knowledge of certificate management, App Store and Play Store submission pipelines, and release management processes

• Experience with observability tools such as New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, or CloudWatch

• Experience with financial services applications and regulatory/compliance requirements

• Strong track record of driving Community of Practice initiatives, tech forums, or architecture review boards

• Ability to produce clear, concise technical documentation — architecture decision records, design proposals, and engineering guidelines

• Experience working in distributed, cross-shore teams across time zones

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years relevant experience in Information Technology, or in lieu of a degree 8+ years of relevant experience in Information Technology.

 Work Timings: 2 PM -11 PM IST 

This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM 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)

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, LPP)

• L9+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L9+ Employees can apply.

Level / Grade : 11

Job Family Group:

Information Technology