Application Engineer (Capacity and Performance Management)

$86,500 - $146,100/Yr

Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Riverwoods, IL

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About the position

As an Application Engineer at Discover, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our Payment Services applications by designing and implementing analytics and automation solutions. This position focuses on eliminating manual tasks and improving the reliability of our applications through insight-driven initiatives. You will work in an Agile environment, driving projects that enhance infrastructure, development, and deployment automation, ultimately improving the quality and efficiency of our services.

Responsibilities

• Create automation solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities.
• Convert analytics or automation requirements into solution models and code.
• Identify and deliver proactive automation and analytics solutions.
• Create models, reports, and dashboards to monitor performance metrics and provide insights.
• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality.
• Guide early-career engineers by providing learning tasks and mentorship.
• Contribute to and lead technology communities of practice at Discover.
• Create and enforce IT standards within the system/application infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, or Information Technology.
• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale (for internal applicants).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in program management.
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives.
• Experience with analytics, data science, or machine learning models.
• Coding and scripting experience in Python.
• Experience with performance engineering.
• Proficient in monitoring, alerting, analyzing, and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems.
• Experience in DevOps skills and methodologies.
• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform, AWS, or other cloud computing platforms.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan