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.

This role can be based out of our Riverwoods, IL or downtown Chicago office. 

Responsibilities

• Using modern SDLC practices and tools, lead the design, build and operations of non-relational data platforms like Pivotal’s Gemfire, Datastax Cassandra, AWS DynamoDB, etc. that support Discover’s application development teams.
• Drive the continuous improvement of Non-relational Data capabilities through internal user groups and market research.
• Partner with key stakeholders as a platform champion, and coach on how to use platform capabilities effectively.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to infrastructure and application development peers.
• Help establish and drive the adoption of appropriate technical practices, policies and pattern within the Chapter necessary to deliver world-class Non-relational Data capabilities to our Product teams.
• Implement Configuration Management, Infrastructure- and Compliance-as-Code using modern tools (e.g. Concourse, Chef, CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Python). Subject matter expertise is required in at least one of them.

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 Product Owner, Product Manager, Technology Product or Team Leadership or related field

Preferred Technical Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• Experience building and running mission critical systems using Pivotal’s Gemfire or PCC, Cassamdra or any AWS related service (eg. DynamoDB)
• Demonstrated ability to use Infrastructure- and Compliance-as-Code principles and tools to provision and manage those systems
• Experience working within at least one Agile framework
• Experience with IDEs, code versioning repos (eg. git) and delivery pipelines (eg. Jenkins)
• Compliance as Code and infrastructure testing using INSPEC or like framework
• Experience developing and integrating against APIs
• AWS, Azure, or Google public cloud experience in a production environment is a plus
• Experience developing and managing of some provisioning orchestrator, eg. vRA, OpenStack
• Demonstrated contributions to some OSS project
• Comfortable working on agile-based teams comprised of team members with diverse skill-sets (e.g. Quality Assurance Engineers, User Experience Designers, Software Engineers / Architects)

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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.