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    4. Principal Application Architect Farnborough 2023
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    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.

    The role

    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.

    Responsibilities

    • 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
    • Coaches other architects to develop product quality strategy including nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, availability, and security
    • Demonstrates a deep understanding of business processes and technical building blocks
    • Trains others in solution design patterns
    • Coaches internal technology communities and are actively engaged in understanding and researching modern technologies and patterns

    Minimum Qualifications

    At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

    • Bachelors – Computer Science or related
    • Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or related experience
    • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus architecture scale

    Preferred Qualifications

    Bonus Points If You Have:

    • Java and related enterprise frameworks e.g. Spring
    • Web services including REST
    • Messaging & streaming middleware e.g. RabbitMQ, Kinesis, Kafka
    • Big data frameworks e.g. Hadoop, Spark
    • Relational and non-relational databases e.g. Postgres, HBase, Redis
    • Micro services experience
    • Cloud infrastructure e.g. AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
    • Containerization experience e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift.
    • Continuous Integration & deployment e.g. Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform.
    • UNIX/Linux scripting

    External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

    What are you waiting for? Apply today!

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