About This Role
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
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
This role will help drive the next generation of customer experience at Discover. This candidate will provide architectural oversight and drive the technical strategy to define the applications, tools, and platforms used to captivate and engage out customers at every interaction and communication touchpoint.
As an 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'll have a broad view of products, technologies, processes, and data and how they should work together to deliver business value.
Responsibilities

• Partners with business and IT leadership along with product area architects regularly to understand key business initiatives to ensure product area target architectures are aligned with enterprise architecture and industry strategies
• Provides insights and recommendations to Executive Committee on strategic architectural opportunities
• Consult on candidate architectures produced by product areas. Assists and guides product areas through the governance process
• Leads and/or contributes to architectures that span across product areas and/or LOBs
• Ensures other Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, and Infrastructure Architects are engaged and strategies are incorporated into target product area architectures
• Provides conduit for feedback loop between technology enablers (e.g., EAIS, Security, Data) and Value Streams
• Promotes consistent architecture practices across the architecture community. Stays current with industry architectures and best practices and influence enterprise technology strategy and initiatives

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

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

Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have (knowledge of any of):

• Customer Engagement Platforms (e.g.)
  • Customer Data Platforms
  • Journey Orchestration
  • Real Time Event Platforms
• Digital Communication Channels and Platforms
  • Outbound Messaging (e.g. Email, SMS, Push platforms and message delivery)
  • Site and Mobile personalization
• Content Management Systems and Content Strategy
  • Enterprise Content Strategies
  • Headless Content Delivery

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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All Discover employees place our customers at the very the 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.
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.