Lead Implementation Specialist

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

Responsible for the design and maintenance of product Fraud strategies within business rule engine to ensure accurate execution of Fraud strategies. Develop solutions, ensures operational readiness and implements strategies in the decision engine using various data sources and operational processing systems.  Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management

How You’ll Do It

• Designs and maintains implementation architecture strategies.

• Collaborates with policy teams to review and clarify requirements. Identifies relationships between existing strategies in the rules engine and identifies implementation solutions.

• Participates in the complete project development lifecycle.

• Designs, codes, and unit tests business rules.

• Interprets and implements business requirements.

• Partners with management to develop project plans and timelines for each stage of the project lifecycle.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration and Management,  Statistics or related field

• 4+ years of experience in Software Development, Data Analysis, Quality Assurance, Financial Services, Security, Digital, Fraud, or related experience.

• In Lieu of education experience – 8+ years of experience in Software Development, Data Analysis, Quality Assurance, Financial Services, Security, Digital, Fraud, or related experience.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• 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.

• Travel up to 10% of the time

Bonus Points If You Have

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration and Management,  Statistics or related field

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development, Data Analysis, Quality Assurance, Financial Services, Security, Digital, Fraud, or related experience 

• Rules authoring & Implementations in SAS Fraud Management

• Python scripting

• Snowflake SQL

• Experience building and maintaining a rules execution framework in any decision engine

• Implementation of strategies & models for Fraud Detection

• Governance & gatekeeping before strategies are implemented

• Monitoring, reporting & remediation of exceptions in strategy execution and

• Providing expertise to Strategy Teams on strategy authoring and to Product teams on Product functionality

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:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Dec-23-2024. 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 $77,500.00 to $131,500.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation pac