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:
What You'll Do
- The Data and Analytics Engineering organization is responsible for building the data ecosystem of Discover that supports all Lines of Business. This involves a range of applications that allow for data curation, ingestion, empower large scale ELT transactions and data egress.
- Work on more complex, less clearly defined software projects under limited supervision. Applies a full understanding of established systems software development principles and best practices to analyze complex issues. Updates or modifies working methods in their own role/work area without the benefit of defined procedures.
- Application Engineers are expected to have a high level of knowledge of domain technologies, platforms and systems software development principles and best practices to independently resolve problems and make major changes to existing processes/systems.
- On a day-to-day basis, you'll be part of a small, close-knit team of engineers that are agile, driven and highly collaborative. You'll help build applications, propose ideas and solutions during sprint planning with your team, implement big ideas and then measure the results. Engineers on our team have moved on to bigger roles within Discover and are influencing decision making at various levels.
- The platform we are creating directly impacts the quality of data that is available to build models and campaigns. The team focuses on batch execution architecture components of data engineering platform.
How You'll Do It
- Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
- Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform
- Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
- Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
- Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.
- Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
- Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related
- 3+ Years - Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Physical And Cognitive Responsibilities
- Primarily remain in a stationary position.
- No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
- Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
- Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
- Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
Bonus Points If You Have
- Strong experience with Ab Initio ETL tool is essential
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, etc.
- Strong knowledge of SQL
- Python development experience a plus
- Strong experience with Database Management; Snowflake MPP experience a plus
- Experience with CICD Tools such as GitHub, Jenkins and code management software such as Nexus, SonarQube
- Experience with DevOps tools like Ansible
- Experience with observability tools like Datadog/Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with Agile Development methodologies like Scrum
- A desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do things manually
- Foundational understanding of software engineering
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scalability) on new and current systems.
- Experience developing, deploying and maintaining large-scale Cloud-native solutions
- Experience building data pipelines to ingest data into data lake
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Mar-18-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $89,000.00 to $150,200.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off
- 401(k) Plan
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
- Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances
- Recognition Program
- Education Assistance
- Commuter Benefits
- Family Support Programs
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)
Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com . Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.
At Discover, we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace through our Fair Chance Hiring practices. Fair Chance Hiring means that we base our hiring decisions on an applicant's qualifications rather than their criminal record. All our positions are subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Our applicants go through a background check, and we follow all applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance ( LA County Fair Chance ).
Positions marked as remote eligible are limited to remote locations within the country in which the position is based.
Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.
