Discover Financial Services - Houston, TX
posted about 2 months ago
As a Principal Application Engineer at Discover, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-impact software solutions that are intuitive and efficient. Your expertise will be essential in managing and escalating risks and customer-impacting issues that arise in day-to-day operations. You will be expected to engage deeply with application development, architecture, infrastructure, and engineering teams to ensure thorough test planning, analysis of requirements, and defining success criteria for various projects. Your responsibilities will include providing technical and application support on Connex Switch, constructing and maintaining test environments, and preparing comprehensive test plans and methodologies. You will execute necessary tests on each release, ensuring timely submission of test reports, and clearly presenting these reports and metrics to the project team. Your role will also involve logging issues and following up to ensure fixes are implemented. As a thought leader, you will create technology solutions that address high-impact business priorities, demonstrating your ability to analyze, design, code, test, and deploy solutions with high quality. Your technical expertise will enable you to tackle complex solutions and you will be recognized as a go-to person for many outside your immediate team. In addition to your technical responsibilities, you will participate in strategic technology decisions, understanding their broader impact on Discover. You will proactively identify and mitigate issues based on your intuition and experience across multiple domains, driving problem-solving efforts to determine root causes. Furthermore, you will coach technology communities at Discover in specific technology domains, design-thinking, agile software development practices, security, architecture, and data engineering.