Principal Application 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:

What You'll Do
Responsible for leading the charge to drive technology strategy and technical capabilities for an application ecosystem. Leverage deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks to design application architecture that balances business and customer needs with technical non-functional requirements for resiliency, security and efficiency.

The architect partners with application engineers to ensure the application ecosystem is engineered according to architecture vision and continuously evolve the architecture and application to meet changing customer and business needs. They actively manages and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.\

How You'll Do It

• Partners with Sr. Product Owner(s) to develop product vision and strategy and align product vision with technology strategy.
• Independently oversees the design process for an application.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks.
• Coaches’ internal technology communities and are actively engaged in understanding and researching modern technologies and patterns.
• Coaches’ other architects to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security.
• Trains others in solution design patterns.
• Design, architect, and oversee implementation of scalable, reliable and secure microservices within our payments ecosystem

Qualifications You'll Need

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors in computer science
• 8+ years Software Development, Software Engineering or related
• For roles requiring Dreyfus Rating – Internal applicants only: technical proficiency of Proficient on the Dreyfus Architect scale.

Preferred Requirements

• Strong expertise in Spring Boot, Java and microservices-based architectures
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, etc.)
• Solid background in DevOps practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, containerization)
• Experience in high-though put, low-latency transaction systems, preferably in payments or financial services

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 accommodation 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.
• Occasionally move about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Ability to transport physical objects up to 10 pounds (5 kg).
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally. Ability to communicate in written form.
• Travel Requirements - Travel up to 10% of the time.

**External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.**
**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.**

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-19-2025. 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 $152,000.00 to $209,600.00. 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, educatio