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Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech)

at Discover Financial Services

📍 3 Locations Unknown 💰 $244K – $279K USD / year Posted April 17, 2026
Salary $244K – $279K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience executive
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Software Engineering

Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech) will lead technical vision and architecture for card core accounts and transactions, supporting a platform transformation from legacy systems to a modern stack. The role focuses on delivering best-in-class non-functional outcomes and mentoring engineering talent.

  • Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain
  • Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions
  • Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation
  • Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics (performance, scalability, operability)
  • Mentor and coach technical talent

This role emphasizes designing the target-state application architecture and providing technical support to development teams during a platform migration. It is accountable for performance, scalability, security, maintainability, usability, and operability characteristics, alongside high-quality technical design and implementation.

The ideal candidate is a Distinguished Engineer with deep experience architecting target-state application architecture and leading platform transformations, including migrating from legacy systems to modern technology stacks. They are a trusted technical advisor who ensures non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, security, maintainability, and usability while mentoring engineering teams.

architecting the target state application architectureproviding technical support to the development teamsarticulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domainEnsure the quality of technical design and implementation
architectingtarget state application architectureplatform transformationmigrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stackperformancescalabilitysecuritymaintainabilityusabilityoperabilitytechnical designtechnical implementationtechnical supporttrusted advisorcode samplesblog postsmentoring
architectingtarget state application architectureplatform transformationmigrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stacknon-functional system characteristicsperformancescalabilitysecuritymaintainabilityusabilityoperabilitytechnical designtechnical implementationcontinuous learningcode samplesblog poststechnical support to development teamsdecompose complex problems into practical and operational solutionsquality of technical design and implementation
articulate and evangelize a bold technical visiontechnical leadershipmentoring internal talentactively recruitinglead through technical contributiontrusted advisorclear and concise communicationshandle several projects simultaneouslybalancing time to maximize impactrole modelcoaching and strengthening technical expertisecollaboration across organizational boundaries
Industry Banking
Job Function Lead engineering architecture and technical leadership for card technology platform transformation
Role Subtype Software Architect
Distinguished EngineerDistinguished EngineersCard TechCard Core Accounts and Transactionsplatform transformationmigrating from legacy systems to a modern technology stackapplication architecturearchitecting the target state application architecturetechnical support to the development teamsperformancescalabilitysecuritymaintainabilityusabilityoperabilitynon-functional system characteristicstechnical designtechnical implementationcode samplesblog poststrusted advisorrole modelmentoring

Must demonstrate ability to architect the target state application architecture, Must demonstrate ability to provide technical support to development teams, Must demonstrate capability to ensure quality of technical design and implementation

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