Manager, Data Engineering
About This Role
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, we are modernizing the way we use build, develop and consume data to accelerate our digital transformation that enable better consumer insights, improved consumer that enable business make impactful decisions to strengthen our brand in the market.
You will lead Discover's journey to a modern, cloud-native data architecture strategy to provide flexibility and scalability while optimizing cost for a wide variety of business outcomes. You will build Enterprise Data Assets that enable customer insights, customer interactions and help drive our Marketing strategies using these data assets with increased focus on modern, reusable data patterns as well as establish the framework for a Data Architecture strategy. In addition, you will be a thought leader leading & managing a team of passionate Data Engineers that deliver business outcomes for Discover's Marketing teams, providing a unique opportunity for both technology product ownership as well as direct business alignment to drive strategic outcomes that shall position Discover as a market leader in the banking industry.
Responsibilities
- Directs daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
- Select Designs and develops data ingestion and processing frameworks leveraging open source tools.
- Develops and enhances technology solutions to enabling seamless integration and flow of data across the data ecosystem.
- Consults team members during the design and development of projects.
- Leads teams that develop and deliver data and analytics solutions
Minimum Qualifications
Here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology, or related field
- 4+ years of data platform administration, engineering, or related
- 1+ years of people leadership experience
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we'd also look for:
- 8+ years of data platform administration, engineering, or related
- 6+ years of experience in data platform administration/engineering or related field
- Proven experience to lead product focused teams of 5-10 employees and contractors to deliver data products and solutions in a DevOps model.
- Experience with design, implement and operationalize data lakes, warehouses.
- Well versed with AWS, Cloud Platforms and experience on hybrid cloud data strategy solutions along with experience working with / in Data Warehouse teams that solve big data problems and challenges.
- Working or conceptual knowledge of Ab Initio / ETL technologies, MPP Databases, Streaming Data Platforms with knowledge on Qlik Replicate, Kafka, K-SQL
- AWS / Cloud / Data Warehouse Certification a big plus
- Self-starter, Engineering Mindset, Innovator & Individual Contributor, bring ideas to whiteboard and adopt with an agile mindset.
- Bonus, if the candidates are experienced with Customers, Contact Preferences, Marketing and Financial domains.
- Coach and Mentor team members in their engineering chapter and provide them with direction and guidance to their technical and analytical capabilities.
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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, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.