Expert Application Architect (Datawarehouse Automation)

Discover; Riverwoods (IL); Remote; USD 175,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Expert Application Architect and contribute to innovative solutions that drive growth in data decisioning and analytics. In this role, you will design and implement full stack solutions that enhance business capabilities while ensuring reliability and efficiency. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver high-quality code, all while promoting best practices in architecture. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment that values your unique contributions and professional growth.

Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance

Recognition Program

Education Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development or engineering is essential.
• Expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design process for applications and innovate unique solutions.
• Work with product teams to architect complex solutions across enterprise teams.

Skills

Software Development

Software Engineering

Cloud-native solutions

API service architecture

Multi-threaded applications

Object-oriented principles

Performance monitoring

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

AWS

Jenkins

Git/GitHub

Artifactory

Job description

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

The Cloud Data Warehouse Architecture team is looking for an Expert Application Architect who is passionate about building products that help Discover achieve the next level of growth in Data Decisioning and Analytics. An architect in this role designs, prototypes, and documents full stack solutions to fit business needs. Full stack solutions require one or more of the following: front-end (user interfaces), back-end (APIs), and database development. As the Expert Application Architect, you will be responsible for architecture, design and support of implementation of reliable infrastructure services on AWS.

An architect in this role works independently or with the team to innovate and advocate for best practices within the team. Primary responsibilities include working with the product team to architect complex solutions across large cross-functional enterprise teams, troubleshooting production issues, designing complex solutions and delivering code from development through production, updating/enhancing current products, automation of support processes and documentation.

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 and data engineers to ensure the application ecosystem is engineered according to architecture vision and continuously evolve the architecture and applications to meet changing customer and business needs. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, and work to improve the user experience.

How You’ll Do It

• Independently oversees the design process for an application and innovate 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.
• Trains others in and out of your department in solution design patterns.
• Actively researches innovative solutions and ways to build business capabilities.

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in Software Development, Software Engineering, or related field
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency of Expert on the Dreyfus Architect scale.

Physical & Cognitive Requirements

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• 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 up to 10% of the time.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, reliability and scalability) on new and current systems
• Experience developing, deploying and maintaining large-scale Cloud-native solutions
• Experience developing and implementing API service architecture
• Strong experience of developing multi-threaded and synchronization application
• Build secure web applications with user authentication
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Experience building data pipelines to ingest data into data lake
• Strong understanding of object-oriented principles with an ability to write clean code
• Experience working with a relational database and NoSQL database
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

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 Apr-12-2025. 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 $175,500.00 to $242,300.00. 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
• Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances
• 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!

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