Principal Technical Architect - Discover Financial Services : Job Details

With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

What You'll Do

As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you'll work to ensure architecture cohesiveness and drive alignment to both business and technology objectives for initiatives that span multiple product areas and/or LOBs. You will have a broad view of products, technologies, processes, and data and how they should work together to deliver business value.

The architect develops technology strategies and future state architectures that enable value streams and product teams to deliver industry differentiating solutions. We combine deep technical domain understanding with a broad view of organizational concerns including business acumen, security, compliance, and product delivery. Also, actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You'll Do It

• Provides guidance to help define business and BT goals. Guides and approves designs that align to strategic business and technology roadmaps.
• Leads multi-disciplinary architecture teams to support complex business areas.
• Applies broad knowledge of technology and business goals to develop future state target architectures and roadmaps.
• Guides engineering team's designs and decisions to support strategic roadmap and meet tactical business goals.
• Defines overarching enterprise architecture frameworks, guardrails and principles for Discover.
• Designs and architects enterprise-scale data center solutions, including compute, storage, networking and virtualization technologies.
• Leads the design and implementation of data center migrations, consolidations and upgrades.
• Designs with PCI/regulatory requirements within their technology and product space.
• Delivers architectures that balance risk, security and operational excellence.
• Serves as a thought leader within their domain or product.
• Keeps abreast of industry changes across their product family. Assesses relative merits of technology maturity against Discover's needs.
• Demonstrates deep understanding of technical domain (e.g. compute, network cloud, API, frameworks, etc.).
• Creates big-picture design view of product portfolio.

Qualifications You'll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors – Computer Science.
• 8+ Years – Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical or related.
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus architecture scale.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• No ability to transport physical objects.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• No ability to operate equipment or machinery.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in written form.
• No travel required.

Mental Requirements

This position also requires completion of a series of activities designed to evaluate specific skills, knowledge, and qualifications related to this position.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Proven experience as a Data Center Enterprise Architect or similar role in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• In-depth knowledge of data center technologies, including server hardware, storage systems, networking protocols and virtualization platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform).

***Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.***

Application Deadline: The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Oct-26-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.