Manager Software Engineering
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Job Description
As a Manager, Software Engineering, in Application Development you will be responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within a Discover application development area while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results. If you’re a hands-on Servant Leader and technical Subject Matter Expert, keep reading!
Projects will include designing and developing data ingestion and processing/transformation frameworks leveraging SQL, Ab Initio, JBOSS and JAVA. Designs, develops and integrates systems for Discover's recovery processes by using Agile development methodologies to support existing and new product features.
This position will be supporting the recovery business and applications (Debt Manager.) While utilizing such technical skill sets as SQL, Ab Initio, etc., and leveraging existing leadership skills to expand the capability of the teams and support any issues they may have.
Managers have opportunities to solve challenging and complex technical problems in a direct, hands-on way when capacity allows. At Discover, we celebrate our leader’s role modeling advanced engineering practices as a way to develop both themselves, and their team members.
If you are an expert in modern engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD, Domain Driven Design, Micro services and Cloud engineering , have a passion for flexing your tech skills in solving complex problems and are skilled at developing engineering talent, apply today!
Responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff within a Discover application development area while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results.
Responsibilities:
- Be part of Engineering team translating business and technology requirements into our ETL architecture.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams such as AWS cloud & platform engineering, DBAs and business teams.
- Design and develop real-time and batch data ingestion.
- Develop data driven solutions utilizing current and next generation technologies to meet evolving business needs.
- Ability to quickly identify an opportunity and recommend possible technical solutions.
- Hire, retain and lead high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and process across the team and driving towards resolution of challenging problems. This includes all performance management aspects of leading the engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews. Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement.
- Mentor staff of engineers in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly technically competent, consistent, thoughtful and customer-centric technology experts. This includes ensuring the group is adhering to principles of engineering excellence within their technical domain, applying consistency of technical execution, sharing common practices and challenges within the team and fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the team.
- Lead and shape the technical vision within their domain and be an essential member of leadership team including acting as a leader in the Discover engineering community affecting and advancing the architecture across the company and ensuring adherence to all regulatory, compliance and audit requirements. This includes defining how technical work should be done, selecting appropriate tools, defining technology, quality, experience and implementation standards and practices within own technical domain.
- Work with key stakeholders to efficiently and effectively allocate team members to product teams to meet business and Product area objectives.
- Engage with internal and external communities of practice to share experiences, contribute knowledge, learn and advocate for the Discover Technology brand. Promotes team innovation and collaboration of ideas across teams.
- Contribute as an engineer within a product team designing, developing and maintaining quality technology solutions for a product or set of products including developing own subject matter expertise.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Information Technology or related
- 4+ years Application Development or related
- In Lieu of Education, 6+ years Application Development or relate
Bonus points if you have:
- 2+ years of people leadership experience
- Experienced in Agile/Lean/SAFe methodologies.
- Experience with one of the ETL tools Abinitio, Informatica, Data Stage or Pentaho. Expert knowledge in Abintio preferred.
- Experience with AWS based solutions such as RDS, Lambda, Dynamodb, Snowflake, Redshift or S3 would be a plus.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and expert skills in writing complicated SQL statements.
- Collaborative individual who excels in working within a team and with business partners and identify, develop and deliver innovative data solutions.
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