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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

Job Description

Citizen Development program empowers Discover employees to innovate and create software applications. It also makes it easy for application developers to build prototypes and enable rapid application development. The democratization of software development process and making AI accessible for all employees is the key goal of the Citizen Development program.

In this role in the Enterprise Architecture Technology Strategy and Innovation organization, you will be working in a highly collaborative environment with business partners, senior architects, and product owners. You will have a deep technical mindset, be a leader that can evaluate business requirements, and emerging technologies in areas like Low-Code/No-Code application platforms, Cognitive computing and ML/AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop thought leadership, define/contribute to technical guidelines and identify industry trends in the Citizen Development space.
• Partners with business and IT leadership along with product area architects regularly understand key business initiatives to ensure product area target architectures are aligned with enterprise architecture and industry strategies
• Identify, lead and contribute to the creation of best practices, white papers, reference architecture, workshops, etc.
• Collaborate and partner with teams across Discover to identify use-cases and increase the adoption of the products and features.
• Lead the creation of Citizen Development governance model and workload placement strategy.
• Promotes consistent architecture practices across the architecture community. Stays current with industry architectures and best practices and influence enterprise technology strategy and initiatives

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience in Cloud Architecture and Application Architecture
• 5+ years of performing engineering work delivering software
• Deep understanding and experience of developing digital applications
• Deep technical knowledge of LCAP(Low-Code Application Platforms) products, vendors, and use cases
• Experience with Low-Code/No-Code(LCNC) application platforms or other model-driven development tools like Appian, Mendix, PowerApps etc..
• Challenge the status quo and nurture creative thinking.
• Stay current with trends and be a thought leader in the Citizen Development area.
• Ability to build consensus between teams and peers using effective communication and collaborative techniques

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