Consumer finance platform serving millions through credit cards, installment lending, and health financing
Synchrony operates a large-scale consumer finance platform backed by public-market infrastructure (Salesforce, Fiserv, Experian PowerCurve, SAS). The hiring mix is heavily skewed toward finance (121 roles), data (81), and marketing (71) with only 67 engineering positions — reflecting a risk-and-compliance-heavy business rather than a product-engineering operation. Active adoption of CI/CD and emerging POS and MITRE ATT&CK tooling suggests defensive modernization: cloud migrations underway alongside tighter security posture and incident response investment.
Notable leadership hires: Inside Sales Director, Technology Lead, Credit Forecasting Analytics Lead, Incident Response Lead, Cloud Agile Lead
Synchrony is a public financial services company providing consumer credit products across cards, installment loans, and health financing to millions of customers through an ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of small- and mid-sized merchants. The platform connects consumers to flexible financing options while managing credit risk and regulatory compliance at scale. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, the company operates with 10,001+ employees and is actively hiring across finance, data, and marketing functions, with secondary investment in engineering and security infrastructure. Current project focus spans cloud system-of-record migrations, advanced analytics and predictive modeling, and optimization of campaign targeting and portfolio growth.
Salesforce (CRM), Fiserv (core banking), Experian PowerCurve (credit decisioning), SAS (analytics), AWS (cloud infrastructure), Java/Spring Boot (applications), and Tableau (visualization). Also uses RSA/AES for encryption, SailPoint for identity management, and Jira for project tracking.
Primarily in the United States, with active hiring also in Canada, Philippines, and India. VP-level and senior-level roles dominate the current pipeline (262 VP and 196 senior positions open).
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