Application Engineer (Mainframe)

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through, but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.

Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management

Major Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product 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. 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.

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology  or related 

• 3+ Years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Does this job require remaining in a stationary position, including but not limited to, primarily sitting and standing? Primarily remain in a stationary position.

Does this job require the ability to move about inside or outside the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job? No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

Does this job require the ability to transport physical objects? If so, provide the weight of the heaviest object the job needs to transport without the aid of machinery or equipment or the weight equivalency with the aid of machinery or equipment. No

Primarily, where is this job performed? Primarily performed indoors in an office setting

Does this job require the ability to operate equipment or machinery? Select all that apply Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator

Does this job require the ability to communicate verbally or in written form? Select all that apply. Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Does the job require travel No

MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Does this role require testing or assessments to measure the ability to perform the job? No