Senior Manager Chapter Engineering (Testing)

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:

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. 

Our Discover Innovation Accelerator is passionate about identifying breakthrough emerging solutions that will build new markets and businesses for Discover Financial Services.  

Our Technology Capabilities and Innovation organization is seeking several Senior Chapter Engineering Managers to join us as we incubate these new opportunities in partnership with our business groups and partners. Our efforts will extend our organization’s continued contributions to standards bodies, open-source communities, and research partnerships with leading-edge Universities. 

We value people who are team-oriented, who constantly learn and more importantly, constantly teach. Above all, we want you to help us improve consistently over time. 

Our Innovation Accelerator is chartered to provide a range of services such as Hackathons, Patent Program, Strategic Outcomes, Design Thinking, and Innovation Lab Services. Each of these capabilities requires individuals who can drive a culture shift and shape how we work, learn, and innovate.  

A Senior Chapter Engineering Manager is a master architect that is responsible for managing a small group of engineers, architects, and agile program managers. Additional responsibilities include driving strategic technology initiatives, aligning the organization to deliver services of the Innovation Accelerator. 

Develops and coaches’ teams to be able to identify, manage, and escalate risk, and effectively manages risk within the teams you oversee. 

Responsibilities 

• Responsible for providing and coordinating support to leadership on strategic test modernization business initiatives including planning, prioritization, and project execution.
• Leads and develops a team to address pressing test modernization business issues.
• Partners with Product Area Lead, the Team, and Subject Matter Experts to build and refine and prioritize test modernization product family roadmap for customer and business needs.
• Facilitates product family refinement meetings to elaborate, breakdown and sequence features into MVP.
• Remove impediments raised by the teams and escalate issues as appropriate.
• Continuously evolve the test modernization development process to reduce waste and improve efficiency.
• Leads product family's adoption of agile methods and practices.
• Establishes & owns the overall strategy for the product area represented. Works with architects to identify & evaluate capabilities required to support business, ensuring alignment to overall strategy.
• Works with product owners, socializing strategies, aiding in generation of roadmaps. Produces reference and solution architectures for the development community. Works with innovation team to bring capabilities to market. 
• Provides leadership and mentors architects, creates opportunities to highlight the team through external speaking engagements, blogs, etc. Manages and champions organizational changes.  
• Communicates implications of design decisions, technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements to executive leadership. 

  

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related 
• 4+ years of experience in Engineering People Management 

Preferred Qualifications 

If we had our say, we’d also look for: 

• Front end (JS/React/NodeJS), Back end(APIs, Springboot, Java, Messaging/Events)
• Infrastructure (Kubernetes highly preferred),
• Testing (Experience testing at Unit/Component/System levels, TDD/BDD methodologies, Performance related testing, Chaos testing, Contract Testing),
• Agile methodology, design thinking

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Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $122,500.00 to