Discover Financial Services · 3 hours ago
Application Engineer (Data Engineer)
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Responsibilities
Develops and troubleshoots data integration solutions with complex data transformations and provides guidance to other team members
Influences other team members to achieve commitments per guidance from Chapter Leads and actively contributes to agile ceremonies
Demonstrates strong technical aptitude across data engineering practices:
Utilizing variety of tools to profile, secure the data in transit and at rest; and to enforce data Governance Controls and Alerting
Designing advanced SQL queries
Leveraging metadata-driven framework for solutions
Developing test scripts for unit and integration testing
Leads code review sessions and other process and operational improvement initiatives
Exhibits fluency with use of supplemental tools and technologies involved in data integration (Unix/Linux, TWS/Control-M or alike, BI stack)
Works on holistic solutions, driving feature and story delivery (Agile)
Identifies and effectively communicates upstream and downstream impacts for changes in the data pipeline
Participates in the on-call rotation for support
Demonstrates effective and clear communication in team and cross-functional meetings
Builds strong collaborative working relationship both within the team and cross-functionally
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.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology
3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale (internal applicants only)
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
No travel required
Does not require testing or assessments to measure the ability to perform the job
Preferred
ETL/ELT Tools (AbInitio, DataStage, Informatica)
Cloud Tools and Databases (AWS, Snowflake)
Other programming languages (Unix scripting, Python, etc.)
Leverage CI/CD framework for data integration, Open Source
Experience working in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Basic understanding of key infrastructure concepts (data centers as well as cloud hosting platform) to support business data needs
Experience optimizing SQL both relational and nosql
Company
Discover Financial Services
We are Discover. As one of the most recognized brands in U.S.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2024-02-19Acquired· undefined
2007-06-22IPO· undefined
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