Manager Application Engineering

, IL, United States

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Job Description 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 awarded 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 a Manager Application Engineering , you will be responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within a Discover application development area , while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results. If you’re a hands-on Servant Leader and technical Subject Matter Expert, keep reading!

Managers have opportunities to solve challenging and complex technical problems in a direct, hands-on way when capacity allows. At Discover, we celebrate our leader’s role modeling advanced engineering practices to develop both themselves, and their team members. If you are an expert in modern engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD, Domain Driven Design, Micro services, and Cloud engineering, have a passion for flexing your tech skills in solving complex problems and are skilled at developing engineering talent, apply today!

This team sits in Discover's Bank Shared Services department with a purpose of creating applications that identifies and reacts to opportunities that arise within the banking applications.

Responsibilities

Mentor and lead a staff of engineers in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly technically competent, consistent, thoughtful and customer-centric technology experts. This includes ensuring the group is adhering to principles of engineering excellence within their technical domain, applying consistency of technical execution, sharing common practices and challenges within the team, and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the team.

Leads and utilizes highly technical skills to contribute as an engineer within a product team designing, developing code and maintaining quality technology solutions for a product or set of products including developing own subject matter expertise. Demonstrated experience in multiple software languages, modern software methods, CI/CD, cloud, and automated testing.

Hire, retain and lead high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and process across the team, and driving towards resolution of challenging problems. This includes all performance management aspects of leading the engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews. Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement.

Lead and shape the technical vision within their product team and be an essential member of leadership team including acting as a leader in the Discover engineering community affecting and advancing the architecture across the company and ensuring adherence to all regulatory, compliance and audit requirements. This includes defining how technical work should be done, selecting appropriate tools, defining technology, quality, experience and implementation standards and practices within own technical domain.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Science or related

6+ years Information Technology, Software Engineering or Related

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

The following skills/experience are preferred, but we don’t expect applications to have expertise in all of them. We're looking for someone motivated to operate in a player/coach role – someone that wants to dig into and learn the technology while also helping to lead a small team of engineers grow in their careers.

2+ years people leadership experience

Experience writing quality code using SOLID principles in Test Driven Development with languages such as Java

Member of an Agile engineering or development team

Strong understanding of object-oriented principles

Experience working with a relational database such as Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres

Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines. Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory

Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

Experience developing and implementing API service architecture

Strong experience in working in a cloud environment such as AWS or PCF

Strong experience in scripting languages such as Shell/Python/Scala/Java

Experience with Unix and Linux

Experience with PLSQL programming

Understanding of messaging systems like MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or Kinesis.

Experience with containerization and associated platforms such as Docker, OCP, Kubernetes

Regression and maintenance testing for maintenance releases

Understanding of OWASP principles

Experience working with Vendors on Issue management, Vulnerabilities, Certificate updates and Audits

Experience working within a product centric organization

Strong experience of testing within the full software development lifecycle (Unit, functional, performance & Security)

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