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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 architect develops technology strategies and future state architectures that enable value streams and product teams to deliver industry differentiating solutions. We combine deep technical domain understanding with a broad view of organizational concerns including business acumen, security, compliance, and product delivery. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

• Design and manage implementation of best practices, compliance standards, security controls for NoSQL databases
• Design and manage implementation of infrastructure management automations and pipeline integrations (CI/CD)
• Design enterprise solutions for hybrid cloud and on-premise scenarios
• Designs with PCI / regulatory requirements within their technology and product space
• Delivers architectures that balance risk, security and operational excellence.
• Services as a thought leader within their domain or product.
• Keeps abreast of industry changes across their product family. Assesses relative merits of technology maturity against Discovers needs
• Demonstrates deep understanding of technical domain (e.g. compute, network cloud, API, frameworks, etc).
• Creates big-picture design view of product portfolio.

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

• 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 communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

• 5+ years working as a data architect supporting NoSQL databases
• 5+ year experience with Go or similar programming languages
• Deep understanding of NoSQL database design and architecture, specifically MongoDB
• Deep understanding of infrastructure as code
• Experienced in both SaaS and self-hosted MongoDB
• Background in database administration, database design, or data architecture
• Experienced in both SaaS and self-hosted MongoDB
• Background in database administration, database design, or data architecture
• Experienced with enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF
• 8+ years as an engineer &/or architect across various technology domains
• 3+ years working as a network architect supporting data center(s) and / or cloud
• Practical experience in delivering network service architectures
• Deep understanding of load balancing strategies and architectures, CDNs, application delivery controllers, and network security protocols
• Background in traditional, public cloud, and hybrid cloud network service architectures
• Applied architecture in global / local traffic management
• Enterprise level experience in architectural design, review and collaboration
• Track record of managing technology lifecycle and delivery; including future-state
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• For technical roles with Dreyfus requirements: External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

• 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