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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 IT departments have traditionally been responsible for providing the environments & services necessary for Discover to meet its business objectives. That responsibility used to be straightforward as the options were limited and the solution patterns were very prescriptive. Fast forward 5 years and IT departments are struggling to provide timely solutions to their business partners. The business is insisting on moving faster to be able to bring new products to market, allowing Discover to differentiate in a market that has been flooded with startups that have been able to take advantage of new cloud capabilities. In this senior leadership role in the Enterprise Architecture Technology Strategy organization, you will be responsible for establishing a set of solutions that will allow the business to quickly evaluate new cloud capabilities in a manner that doesn't introduce significant risk to Discover and its consumers. You will be tasked with the automatic provisioning of temporary connected environments, that have full audit/replay capabilities, network segmentation, access to test data sets along with data tracking & loss capabilities, and continuous compliance for cloud infrastructure.At your core you are an Architect that has demonstrated the engineering and architecture skills necessary to help drive the Technology Strategy for Discover. While the role will require leading a small group of architects, this is not a hierarchal management role, it is a technical role that demands that the candidate have had exposure to a wide range of technologies. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment with business partners, senior architects, product owners and the application development community to help deliver a strategy around the concept of self-sovereign cloud. Therefore, you will have the unique skill to gain the influence over the technical and business teams as the chief domain architect. You are someone with advance skills around public cloud providers, Kubernetes and general understanding of cloud services.The Technical Architecture Manager is a master architect that is responsible for managing a small group of architects. They are responsible for driving strategic technology initiatives, aligning the organization to delivery of critical capabilities to support the development and analytics communities. What You'll Do :- Lead the creation of technical strategy for the overall Self Sovereign Cloud program and work with product owners to establish implementation roadmaps
- Create and staff the subdomains within Self Sovereign Cloud pillar
- Lead the creation of reference/solution architectures for development community & business around concept of disposable environments, establishing best practices
- Work with stakeholders such as Infrastructure and Cyber teams on operating model
- Execution of proof of concepts where required in support of technology strategy and help drive solutions to our stakeholders
- Mentorship of other architects within the Self Sovereign Cloud pillar
- Work with business on understanding their technology priorities
- Marketing and communication of technology strategy for the Self Sovereign Cloud
- Establishes & owns the overall strategy for the product area represented. Works with architects to identify & evaluate capabilities required to support business, ensuring alignment to overall strategy. Works with product owners, socializing strategies, aiding in generation of roadmaps. Produces reference and solution architectures for the development of community. Works with the innovation team to bring capabilities to market.
- Provides leadership and mentors architects, creates opportunities to highlight the team through external speaking engagements, blogs, etc. Manages and champions organizational changes.
- Communicates implications of design decisions, technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements to executive leadership.
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
- 12+ years' experience Engineering/Architecture across numerous technology domains or related
- 2+ years' experience with Direct Line People Management or equivalent experience leading teams through large technology initiatives
- 10+ years as technical lead or architect composing system designs/architectures
- 6+ years performing engineering work, across multiple domains
- Good understanding, experience with products in the SASE space, e.g., Firewalls, Network Policy, Security Brokers
- Good understanding of Data Tracking & Loss Prevention cloud capabilities
- 2+ years with Kubernetes
- 4+ years with public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure
- Deep understanding of cloud & kubernetes networking capabilities and architectures
- Deep understanding of automation capabilities
- Understanding of continuous compliance concepts and capabilities
- Understanding of Test Data Management & Generation capabilities
- Excellent communication & collaboration skills
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