at Discover in Riverwoods, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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:
Our Discover Innovation Lab is passionate about identifying breakthrough emerging solutions that will build new markets and businesses for Discover Financial Services.
Technology Capabilities and Innovation is seeking several Innovation Solution Engineers to join us as we incubate these new opportunities in partnership with our business groups and partners. Our efforts will extend our organization’s continued contributions to standards bodies, open-source communities and research partnerships with leading-edge Universities.
We value people who are team-oriented, who constantly learn and more importantly, constantly teach. Above all, we want you to help us improve consistently over time.
Our innovation lab is chartered to be an accelerator for internal business transformation and external market growth opportunities. The lab will be an incubator for corporate sponsored innovation projects. Lab members will pair with sponsoring business unit resources to form innovation squads that will manage the lifecycle development of exciting new endeavors. Squad members will get in at the ideation stage for new projects and have the opportunity to iterate with a project from prototyping though pilots and eventually being the subject-matter experts as a project is transitioned for productization within the sponsoring business units.
We are looking for a number of Innovation Solution Engineers with a conscientious mentality and a commitment to innovate with high quality work. We seek someone that can work across several independent squads to provide rapid solution prototyping.
In this position you will collaborate with designers and domain specialists across the business to apply state of the art technologies and architecture patterns to challenging business problems
Responsibilities :
+ Contribute to project ideation and design to understand needs, propose features, create early prototypes and transform them into exciting experiences. Design, development and iterate on a solution for a specific innovative business objective (concept proposal). Develop front-end and backend components with a focus on user experience and microservices-based architecture. Leverage best-practice knowledge, reference architectures, and patterns from prior projects to promote re-use across the innovation Lab. Ensures Minimal Viable Prototypes/Pilots/Products can be taken through the necessary steps to become scalable, supportable managed solutions. Develop and present detailed technical demonstrations to C-level sponsors and project stakeholders.
+ Uses holistic knowledge open-source tools for improved consistency and developer time to value. Bring a deep understanding of the full technology stack, working with emerging and traditional technologies, adjusting between the art of the possible and the requirements to adhere to corporate privacy, risk and security protection guidelines.
+ Write high-quality code with best practices and design patterns in mind. Have fun brainstorming and collaborating in team that is excited to answer your questions and share their wisdom with you. We expect you to do the same.
+ Innovates on and advocates for best practices and improved processes within the team and with internal partners; stays up to date with technology trends and innovations; mentors team members. Propose innovative tools, frameworks, automations and processes where appropriate. Be a champion of architecture decision records (ADRs) within your squad, and across the organization.
+ Architect, develop, and maintain tools to improve the scale and efficiency of the Lab. Continuously refine our DevOps, SecDevOps and CI/CD pipeline tools. Creates and maintains devops processes, application infrastructure, and utilizes cloud services (including database systems and models).
About You:
+ We’re looking for people who are motivated to learn new technologies and who enjoy have a builder’s mentality where “show me” means more than “tell me”.
+ You are passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms, and quick to pick up emerging technologies.
+ You thrive on the creation of something from nothing and are comfortable with uncertainty in an always evolving environment.
+ You enjoy working with others to experiment with innovative approaches and the to validate the technical feasibility of a solution.
+ It is in your DNA to methodologically execute experiments and prototypes to find the quickest way to prove new ideas, technologies, and business models in a real-world environment. This experimentation is the heart and sole of the Discover Innovation Lab.
+ You enjoy assembling and building prototypes with internal and external corporate stakeholders.
+ You are a well-seasoned industry professional looking to bring your tool-belt of experience and skills to work every day to tackle new challenges that will fuel your desire to continuously learn.
+ You are an intellectually curious person with a deep and persistent desire to learn. You are willing to ask questions and you like the challenge of finding answers to the hard ones.
+ You enjoy the camaraderie of collaboration towards the creation of new business solutions.
+ You desire to take the time to design things right the first time, but are able to recognize when tactical trade-offs are necessary and you are able to pivot.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field
+ 10+ years of experience in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
+ In lieu of education, 12+ years of experience in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
+ AWS Certification as an AWS Solutions Architect, Developer, or SysOps Associate/Professional
+ Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
+ Deep understanding of full tech stacks (Java, JavaScript, Swift, Python, React, Node.js, RESTful services, GraphQL, Message brokers (MQTT), JSON, HTML/HTML5, CSS, etc.).
+ Experience designing and implementing container-based APIs using container frameworks like OpenShift, Docker, or Kubernetes.
+ Proven experience with various architectural design patterns including Microservices, API’s, event-driven data flows, serverless, containers, connectivity, etc.
+ Experience with GitHUB relative to continuous integration and continuous delivery infrastructure
+ Demonstrated ability to independently research technical issues and generate creative/innovative solutions.
+ Experience architecting Kubernetes concepts and architecture to deploy applications at scale for consumers.
+ Working knowledge of modern software development practices and technologies such as Agile methodologies, Design Thinking and CI/CD.
+ Track record of developing and maintaining APIs using tools such as Swagger, Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Management, MuleSoft and Postman.
+ History of technical consulting and architecture engagements that demonstrate client interactions that yield working prototype solutions, proof-of-concepts, and/or demos.
+ Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control ma
