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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.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex data solutions for the product. Data Engineers play a key role in mentoring and influencing peers to achieve commitments on data solutions in a timely fashion and with an emphasis on quality. This role also has a broader influence through technical thought leadership amongst their peer tech lead community. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

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, and lead tech communities.
• Builds strong collaborative working relationships both within the team and cross-functionally.

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in developing data-based analytical solutions, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Experience working with and understanding of data related to Financial and Marketing domain. 
• 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

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in consideration for a career at Discover.

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.