Senior Software Developer
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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.
We’re looking for an Senior Software Engineer to join our Enterprise Risk Management technology team. In this role, you’ll perform administrator duties of the RSA Archer application; this includes collecting requirements, analyzing and optimizing system configurations, and maximizing and improving system performance and productivity. You will help ensure that our systems are designed, enhanced, and implemented to a high level of performance and stability.
You will perform business event level system design and analysis, provide consulting services to internal customers, and participate in a wide range discussions focused on building and enhancing our capabilities. You will have the opportunity to work in an innovative and diverse environment, working together with the team and our business partners to rapidly respond to challenges in the regulatory environment.
Responsible for developing large scale, customer-facing applications. Designs, develops, and integrates systems for Discover's award-winning digital presence by using Agile development methodologies to support existing and new product features.
Responsibilities
- Support upgrades, enhancements, system performance, strategic designs of the user experience, data integrity, testing, and system documentation
- Translate conceptual ideas from users to requirements for technical system changes
- Partner with key stakeholders to enable business and systems synergy
- Assess, rationalize, design, and report success metrics for multiple business departments
- Evaluate and align system parameter to business objectives
- Works closely with the business, utilizing agile methodology.
- Breaks down complex requirements into workable technical solutions.
- Assists in the evaluation of client-area application software/systems requirements and processes (e.g., new features, enhancements or maintenance).
- Performs application software development, testing, and implementation of efficient, cost effective application solutions.
- Completes technical design(s) as needed.
- Ensures that design(s) meets architecture standards and that the resulting system will be flexible, easily maintainable, high performing, and integrates well with other related systems/components.
- Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solution for the systems’ design.
- Collaborates with other developers on code reviews and process enhancements.
- Completes unit and system testing prior to the start of any testing in PA region.
- Works with other internal IT teams to complete project activities, such as Infrastructure, Architecture, and Database teams.
- Ensures that code reviews are performed and documented, using the approved template.
- May provide direction and guidance to other systems analysts/developers.
- Analyzes and identifies technical areas of improvement within existing web applications.
- Ensures all projects and releases are appropriately tested and that risks are mitigated.
- Ensures all projects have a detailed implementation and back-out plans, and are reviewed with all impacted parties in advance of scheduled releases.
- Continually looks for, and implements ways to, stabilize and improve the performance of the production environment.
- Identifies and executes opportunities to leverage Agile/Iterative/Lean processes to deliver projects faster.
- Proposes ideas to better position our applications to support future business and technology initiatives.
- Finds ways to incorporate these ideas within planned project/release timelines.
- Incorporates and supports new technology/frameworks to support our continual integration efforts.
- Adheres to regulatory, PDP, Change Management, and Internet Department processes and standards, ensuring all projects are compliant.
- Ensures any volume and capacity considerations are communicated during the design phase (or prior to committing to a Sprint).
- Documents software and performs related duties as assigned or requested.
- Actively contributes to best practices to support a strong software architecture. Reduces occurrence of vulnerabilities through proper secure coding practices and having a "Security First" mindset.
- Follows proper handling of sensitive data per security guidelines.
- Ensures any volume and capacity considerations are communicated during the design phase (or prior to committing to a Sprint).
- Identifies efficient and viable alternatives to resource-intensive requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in Software Development or related field
- In lieu of education, 6+ years of experience in Software Development or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
- 3-5 years of experience supporting front end administrator functions of eGRC enterprise tools
- RSA Archer 6.x tool suite and subject matter expertise, including experience in full deployment of the Archer platform and uses cases
- Demonstrated ability to understand calculated fields, data driven events, data feeds, mail merge templates, and API calls
- Experience in integrating data feeds into Archer and the integration of 3rd party elements
- Moderate to advance knowledge of Excel, including the use of Pivot Tables and Macros
- Experienced in developing J2EE components on Application Servers like IBM Web Logic 8.1, Jboss, and Web Servers like Apache Tomcat, work with any J2EE standard servers
- Working knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL in database systems Oracle and SQL Server
- Extensively worked on Web Services technologies like SOAP, WSDL, REST API
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills; have expertise in working with Stakeholders to define needs and issues, developing requirements, and analyzing findings to advise and recommend solutions to Stakeholders
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality with member and employee information
- RSA Archer Certified Professional is a plus
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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.