Principal Enterprise Architect

Discover. A brighter future.
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.
Job Description:
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. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsibilities

• 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
• Design and architect enterprise-scale data center solutions, including compute, storage, networking and virtualization technologies
• Lead the design and implementation of data center migrations, consolidations and upgrades

Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

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

Preferred Qualifications
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 orchestra tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet Terraform)

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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-20-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $148,000.00 to $204,000.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
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