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Job Description:

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering you will be responsible for the technical development of software engineering staff, while using your technical expertise to drive vision into action and results. This role is in the Decisions and Analytics (DNA) organization where you will be focused on building and developing a world class, high performing team of engineers who work on developing Discover’s strategic Enterprise Machine Learning Platform. If you’re a hands-on Servant Leader and technical Subject Matter Expert, keep reading!

This Senior Manager role plays a critical part in the development of their engineering team on the Decisioning Delivery team and will take the lead on effectively skilling, tooling and allocating engineering members to best support the needs of the overall Data Science Decisioning Delivery applications and services. Investing in the development of the engineering team through coaching and leadership is part of the Discover culture. We celebrate a culture of innovation and learning which grows our technical talent and ultimately serves Discover customers with high quality, reliable products and experiences. While coaching and development of engineers is this role’s primary responsibility, the Senior Manager will also work with their Product Owner peers to help shape the technical vision for their products. You’ll be key in educating your chapter on the technical vision and turning vision into best-in-class execution across a team of software engineers.

This sounds exciting, but what about hands-on work with technology? Keeping your technical skills fresh is as important for engineers as it is for our chapter engineering leaders. Uniquely, chapter engineering leaders have opportunities to solve challenging and complex technical problems in a direct, hands-on way when capacity allows. At Discover, we celebrate our leaders role modeling advanced engineering practices to develop both themselves, and their team members.

If you have a passion for technology and enjoy working with a wide array of latest technologies in the cloud and container space and are skilled at developing engineering talent, apply today!

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership in execution and delivery of technology capabilities to support key business initiatives for our Data Science partners.
• Collaborating closely with users and engineering teams utilizing the platform on building and enhancing tooling and automation solutions for faster resolution of issues impacting SLA’s and averting incidents altogether when possible.
• Hire, retain and lead high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and processes across the team and driving towards resolution of challenging problems. This includes all performance management aspects of leading engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews.
• 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.
• Responsible for the application ownership, development delivery, and support for value streams. Manages a team, including hiring, directing, mentoring, and assigning work. 
• 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.
• Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement advocating for an automation first mindset.
• Coaches and mentors team members. Supports individuals to achieve their individual development goals. Utilizes Agile and Lean practices to identify and solve systemic issues. 
• Consults with management in the analysis of short- and long-range business requirements and recommends innovations. 
• Utilizes tools to support data-driven decision making. Identifies and removes blockers to enable the team to meet business goals. 

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field 
• 8 years of experience in Application Development, or related
• 2 years of experience in people management 

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for

• At least 1 years of working with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes/Openshift) and cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or others.
• Experience in key technologies to be leveraged by the team including Java, Python / PySpark, Spark, CI/CD technologies
• Understanding of observability and how to achieve reliability in a service
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Skilled in high availability & scalability design, as well as performance monitoring
• Experience in Machine Learning Platforms and Data Science Technologies
• Experience working with a variety of data platforms such as S3, Snowflake, Redis, Cassandra
• Experience building and implementing API service architectures
• Knowledge of messaging systems and streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, MQ
• Knowledge of machine learning, deep learning and other AI use cases
• Agile, Scrum Master 

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-08-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $125,500.00 to $211,500.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• 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

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)

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