Principal Application Engineer (Mainframe)

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. 

The Principal Application Engineer (Mainframe) 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 spend more time documenting than coding. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities 

• Break down a product vision into workable technical solutions to solve business problems

• Build high quality software for large scale and highly available systems

• Actively contribute to the department’s developer community to support our devops transformation journey

• Provide strong technical and team leadership

• Talk about your work with both technical and non-technical team members

• Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes.

• Lead Agile-focused software development teams to help our organization drive towards emerging technologies. While primarily providing hands-on development work, you’ll also mentor junior-level software developers.

• Leverage your leadership skills to help shape our business and technology outcomes to meet customer and partner needs.

• Create and break-down product/platform efforts into successful execution-ready plans.

• Contribute to the developer experience by leveraging the latest industry technologies to enhance current solution patterns and define new ones.  

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production 

• Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow 

• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills 

• Has an oversight on 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 

• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover 

 

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related 

• 6+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 

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

Preferred Qualifications 

Bonus Points If You Have: 

• Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization

• Time spent working for an organization in either the financial services or technology space

•  Cobol

•  CICS

•  DB2

•  Event-driven architecture / IBM MQ (or similar)

• Experience with ACH or Payments

• Experience with PEP+ Software

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Mar-13-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $104,000.00 to $175,600.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market comp