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Job Description 

At Discover Financial Services, you’ll find yourself in the company of some of the industry’s brightest and most reliable professionals; at a company that rewards dedication, values innovation and supports growth.

We're looking for a Principal Application Architect to support the ongoing evolution and maturity of our Enterprise Decisioning Platform. Discover is on a journey to consolidate decisioning across customer life cycle into a single platform that enables an omni-channel view across all products for the customer. This is a key position that would drive enhancements to the platform based on cloud technologies and microservices driven data management.

Responsibilities

• Continue to enhance Enterprise Decisioning Platform to have high availability/performance, seamless integration (loosely coupled), high quality/reliability, and user-focused adoption models/frameworks while ensuring the platform helps protect our business data and the privacy of our customers.
• Hands-on experience with owning a technology platform – ownership responsibilities should include technology adoption across the enterprise and business outcome delivery using the platform as well as hands-on experience with architecting/designing solutions across more than 2 types of architectures such as cloud-native backend-architecture, modern responsive web/mobile front-end architectures, micro services architectures, event-driven architectures.
• Technical consultant for application project teams to enable high-velocity progress on software development stories by partnering closely with the other technology groups within the enterprise to develop re-usable patterns, frameworks across modern software development needs such as API-driven integrations, cloud infrastructure, and deployment pipelines, secure-by-design and privacy-by-design approach for protecting our systems and data.
• Define platform-level roadmaps and collaborate with technology leaders across the enterprise to align their portfolio-level roadmap and application-level roadmap with enterprise platform roadmaps.
• Help portfolio leaders and application owners proactively plan and address technical debt, security risks, and technology upkeep related to the use of the platform across the enterprise.
• Learn new technical skills to effectively drive strategic/tactical adoption by understanding/communicating the benefits, best practices, and challenges of a given technology, product/platform, framework, and software development technique. Learning and teaching should be the core values of a successful candidate for this role.
• In addition, this individual mentors and guides other technical staff members on adoption of new tools (e.g CI/CD), new methodology (e.g. Test Driven Development) & new technology platform (e.g., Cloud Foundry, Public Cloud).
• Documents design specifications and installation instructions.
• Communicates with staff and clients to understand specific system requirements.
• Drives optimal reference architecture that efficiently and effectively presents an integrated view of enterprise data for both operational and analytical needs.
• Consult with management to ensure agreement on system principles.
• Communicates with staff or clients to understand specific system requirements.
• Documents current state data flows covering interfaces, data stores, transport technologies and the source and destination of data
• Communicates with staff and clients to understand specific system requirements.
• Provides advice on project costs, design concepts, and design changes.
• Documents design specifications and installation instructions.
• Verifies the stability, interoperability, portability, security, and scalability of system architecture.
• Collaborates with technology partners to select appropriate design solutions and ensure the compatibility of system components.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Business, or related
• 8+ years of work experience in Technical, or other relevant experience
• In lieu of education experience, 10+ years of work experience in Technical, or other relevant experience

Tech Stack

• Java + Spring (Core, Boot, Cloud)
• Microservice Architecture (REST), Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design
• Secure Coding (OWASP Standard)
• CI with Jenkins, GitHub; Gradle, Nexus
• Messaging systems: JMS, Rabbit MQ, Kafka
• Data/Cache Technologies: Oracle, Maria, Redis, Postgres,
• No SQL technologies : Cassandra, Dynamo, Mongo
• TDD/BDD; Cucumber/Gherkin
• Cloud/PaaS Architectures (AWS/Cloud Foundry/OpenShift)
• Linux
• JavaScript, React.js, Selenium

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• 10+ years of relevant hands-on data architecture experience
• 4+ years of relevant hands-on exposure to building data and analytics solutions on AWS
• 2+ years of ETL architecture experience (Ab Initio or cloud-native tools)
• Experience with variety of databases e.g. Teradata, Oracle, Maria DB, Snowflake
• Built architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully-designed data solutions, repeatable data pipelines, and efficient software engineering principles
• Sound understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure engineering and building future ready technology solutions
• Experience with building data warehouses, marts, business intelligence reports and operational systems
• Deep knowledge and understanding of emerging trends in the data space and ability to recommend solutions
• Experience leading and mentoring other data architects
• Strong executive presentation skills

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.