Principal Application Engineer (API Mangement)

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Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position.  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

The Principal Application Engineer uses a vast repertoire of experience delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. This Engineer role knows where to look if something breaks and is key in solving challenges quickly. Principal Application Engineers are skilled in (re)design and identifying ways to maintain & improve our clients’ experience. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

The Principal Application Engineer is responsible for leading the technical design, development, and monitoring for our products. The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design, and deployment ways of reducing toil & friction in the way we work.

In our API Management space, this role will apply advanced technical skills around web development, CICD, DevOps, Automation, Security, Support and Operation. You are also someone who is well versed with OpenShift (OCP) and cloud technologies to help continue us to improve in how we operate in a cloud environment via containerized workloads.

Responsibilities 

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
• Mentor other engineers, lead design and solutioning discussions
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
• Works directly with business partners to understand business requirements.
• Works independently or with own team to innovate on and advocate for best practices within the team.
• Develops and maintains full stack solutions to fit business needs. Full stack solutions require one or more of the following: front-end (user interfaces), back-end (APIs), database and devops development.
• Evangelize the Enterprise API Strategy and facilitate presentations to a wide audience of internal and external stakeholders
• Regular interaction with Product Manager, Product Owner and Product Architect for evolution, API security enhancement and solutioning.
• Support, engineer, and build activities for Portal, Gateway and API Lifecycle engineering teams and overall direct responsibility for health of the platforms.
• Leads and executes on strategic technical objectives for security and evolution initiatives across API technology platforms.
• Performs technical analysis, design, build and deployment of highly complex / scalable API libraries design.
• Designs complex solutions and leads them from inception to production within the agile team.
• Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved team processes, mentors junior team members
• Supports live systems to ensure business continuity
• Works with an offshore team and acts as Level 3 support and help the L1 team
• Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities  
• Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team) 
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole 
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains 
• Coaches' technology communities at Discover 

Minimum Qualifications 

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

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

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in supporting /delivering Developer Center portals
• Experience in PHP, Drupal Design and Development
• Detailed knowledge of HTTP REST concepts, JSON, JSON Schema, the Swagger JSON REST specification, the HTTP protocol and status codes.
• Experience working in Kubernetes and Open Shift Container Platform
• ·Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Modern SDLC concepts and tools such as JIRA, Rally, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, etc.
• Experience with modern software development processes (Agile, Scrum etc.) within a large enterprise environment
• Experience working in cloud environment such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• 10+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
• Experience with REACT and Angular
• Experience developing and implementing API security & service architecture
• 8+ years of application development and implementation experience
• 8+ years of Java experience
• 3+ years of Agile experience

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

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