Application Engineer

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign.  Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is customer-focused and is consistently awarded for both.  We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover Financial Services is a great place to work.  Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. 

As an Application Automation Engineer, you will make a big impact in strengthening our Payment Services applications by designing and implementing automation solutions.  In our Agile environment, you’ll focus on automation solutions to eliminate manual tasks and improve/modernize the reliability of our applications (availability, self-healing, performance, efficiency, monitoring, reporting, forecasting and capacity planning of our services).  Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Discover, improving the quality and efficiency of our Payment Services group.  Your automation will connect analytics and reporting to metrics collected during production support processes, as well as enable and improve diagnostics and problem resolution for payment applications. 

Responsibilities

• Create automation solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
• Convert automation requirements into solution & code
• Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, automation, analytics, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
• Identify and deliver proactively automation solutions
• Creates models, reports and dashboards to closely monitor performance metrics and provide insights
• Self-driven to learn new systems and works in automation use cases in new applications that might require learning (new tools/scripts/languages)
• Participate in strategic technology discussions on how these automation decisions impact Discover as a whole

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization
• Time spent working for an organization in either the Financial Services or Payments Technology spaces
• You have hands on experience of implementing CI/CD/CT pipelines and advocacy of DevSecOps culture.
• Expected to be technically strong in most of following general areas:
  • Core Java and Python
  • Spring framework (core, integration, boot and other libraries)
  • AWS Cloud - S3, EMR, Lambda
  • Experience with data pipelining coding techniques that are commonly used in streaming development with Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache HDFS, Hadoop stack (Hbase, Storm)
  • REST APIs, JSON, Contract Testing
  • UNIX/Linux (command line and shell scripting)
  • Continuous Integration/Deployment/Testing with Jenkins, Terraform, Cucumber (or similar)
  • Test Driven Development [TDD], Behaviour Driven Development [BDD]
  • Performance benchmarking and analysis

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

#LI-AM2