Application Engineer (Capacity and Performance Management)

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

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 on its customers and is consistently rewarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover 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 Engineer, you will make a big impact in strengthening our Payment Services applications by designing and implementing analytics and automation solutions.  In our Agile environment, you’ll focus on analytics and automation solutions to eliminate manual tasks and provide insight driven initiatives to improve/modernize the reliability of our applications (availability, self-healing, performance, efficiency, monitoring, reporting, forecasting and capacity planning of our services).  Your projects will drive 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. 

The Engineer is 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. They actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Create automation solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
• Convert analytics or automation requirements into solution, models & 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 and analytics 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)
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production 
• 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 design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them 
• 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.

Qualifications You'll Need

The Basics

• Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security or Information Technology
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 

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

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

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?

• 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?

• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Does the job require travel?

• Travel up to 10% of the time

Does this role require testing or assessments to measure the ability to perform the job?

• No

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience in program management
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives
• Experience with analytics, data science, or machine learning models
• Coding and scripting experience in Python
• Additionally experience in any of the following would be helpful, but not necessary
• Experience with performance engineering
• Proficient in monitoring, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems
• Experience in DevOps skills and methodologies - creating and managing a continuous build, integration, test, and deployment systems
• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform, AWS or other cloud computing platforms, Big Data ecosystems, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, Tableau.

****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****

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Application Deadline:

Compensation:

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

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D

• 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.