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Application Engineer – Ab Initio
| Company | Discover |
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| Location | Wheeling, IL, USA |
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| Salary | $89000 – $150200 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related
- 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Responsibilities
- Contributes to and leads technology communities of practice at Discover in areas of design-thinking, tools/technology, agile software development, security, architecture and/or data.
- Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform
- Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.
- Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.
- Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture 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 to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.
- Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) through collaboration with other engineers, architects, product owners and data scientists.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong experience with Ab Initio ETL tool is essential
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, etc.
- Strong knowledge of SQL
- Python development experience a plus
- Strong experience with Database Management; Snowflake MPP experience a plus
- Experience with CICD Tools such as GitHub, Jenkins and code management software such as Nexus, SonarQube
- Experience with DevOps tools like Ansible
- Experience with observability tools like Datadog/Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with Agile Development methodologies like Scrum
- A desire to write tools and applications to automate work rather than do things manually
- Foundational understanding of software engineering
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scalability) on new and current systems.
- Experience developing, deploying and maintaining large-scale Cloud-native solutions
- Experience building data pipelines to ingest data into data lake
