Expert Application Architect - Houston, TX, United States - Discover Financial Services

Description

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.

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

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign.

Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

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.

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.

Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Independently oversees the design process for an application and innovates unique solution patterns for that application
Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks to help develop product vision and strategy with Product Owners

Work with executive-level stakeholders on new payment services business strategies and create the architectures to realize the required capabilities.

Create and maintain the Technology vision and roadmap for the financial clearing and settlement product area.

Accountable for working with the product area architects to incorporate the technical enhancements in their target architectures and technical roadmaps.

Provide consulting to payment services architects and application teams on best practices.
Work with the third-party vendors for product evaluations, roadmaps, feature implementations.

Bachelors – Computer Science or related
~10+ Years - Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or related
~ In depth knowledge and experience in payment transaction clearing, settlement, fee billing and pricing
Experience with Payment networks, Banking industry and Debit card processing.
Experience building high performing, scalable systems that adapt and grow to customer needs.
Familiarity using Kubernetes, AWS and/or other cloud computing services.


Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
~ Employee Stock Purchase Plan

To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations.

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