Application Engineer (OpenText Exstream)
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, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
- Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow
- Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
- Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
- Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
- Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
- Develop and maintain mainframe solutions to fit business needs.
- Experience in customer communications application related software of OpenText Exstream, Unix and Mainframe a must.
- High degree of understanding of business and technical creation of statements, disclosures, letters, checks, and claims processes leveraging the OpenText Exstream software.
- Develop and maintain mainframe application.
- Develop and maintain back-end systems.
- Work with key stakeholders to design complex solutions and lead from inception to production.
- Create and maintain DevOps processes, application infrastructure, and utilize cloud services (including database systems and models).
- Innovate on and advocate for best practices and improved team processes.
- Mentor junior team members.
- Work directly with business partners to understand business requirements.
- Work independently or with own team to innovate and advocate for best practices within the team.
- Design complex solutions and lead them from inception to production within the Agile team.
- Familiar with Discovers agile framework.
- This understanding allows for proper collaboration with business to estimate, groom, develop, test, implement and validate any changes.
- High degree of understanding of banking processes.
- This includes lines of business of deposits products, personal loans, student loans and home equity loans.
- Within each line of business an understanding of the processes related to originations, disbursements, servicing, payments, collections, and recovery.
- Add or include automation to all processes.
- This increases system stability and increases quality without adding manual oversight.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate within the department and across the organization by proactively driving solutions related to communication system issues and escalating as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science or related
- 3+ Years - Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
- Java, API, Microservices, and have worked in a Cloud platform
- OpenText Exstream, Unix and Mainframe a must.
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
And by the way, while you're waiting to hear from us, don't forget to check out the great benefits Discover offers.
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, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in consideration for a career at Discover.
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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.
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.