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Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech)

at Discover Financial Services

📍 McLean, VA Unknown 💰 $293K – $335K USD / year Posted April 17, 2026
Salary $293K – $335K USD / year
Type Not Specified
Experience executive
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Cloud & Infrastructure

As a Distinguished Engineer (Card Tech), you will help define the future of banking in the cloud through technical leadership. You will architect next-generation platform capabilities for Travel Intelligence, including agentic AI and scalable data orchestration, and guide technology stack choices to enable hyper-personalized growth marketing.

  • Architect the next generation Travel Intelligence Platform for Travel Data & Personalization
  • Define foundational data schemas and orchestration layers that power the travel ecosystem
  • Establish an Agentic AI framework with reasoning-based agents for proactive journey management
  • Build a system that supports predictive insights and scales agentic automation with human-in-the-loop approval
  • Lead the strategic selection and architectural integration of the technology stack for a growth marketing engine

The role is centered on architecture: designing foundational data schemas and orchestration layers for a Travel Intelligence Platform. You will establish an Agentic AI framework using reasoning-based agents, enabling predictive machine learning development alongside agentic automation with human-in-the-loop approval.

The ideal candidate is a Distinguished Engineer who provides senior technical leadership and acts as a trusted advisor for key platforms and capability domains. They have deep architecture experience building scalable data orchestration layers and an Agentic AI framework using reasoning-based agents, with the ability to drive both predictive machine learning development and human-in-the-loop automation for real-world workflows.

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Industry Banking
Job Function Architect cloud-scale data and agentic AI capabilities to power travel intelligence and hyper-personalized growth.
Role Subtype Cloud Architect
Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, AI & Machine Learning, Data Orchestration
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Must demonstrate experience architecting foundational data schemas and orchestration layers, Must show experience building Agentic AI frameworks and reasoning-based agents, Must have experience with human-in-the-loop workflows, Must have experience architecting a growth marketing engine for customer acquisition

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