Application Engineer (AbInitio)

What You’ll Do

• As an Engineer of the Business Technology Finance Corporate Services Team, you will provide technical (design & development) leadership to support applications that build ETL pipelines for transforming, aggregating, and loading financial data into warehouse to facilitate downstream reporting for Finance. 
• You will be involved in developing AbInitio ETL (Extract/Transform/Lead) applications and developing and maintaining data driven solutions with current and next generation technologies to meet evolving business needs. 
• Excellent communication skills for understanding business vision and the ability to translate the vision into technical artifacts.
• 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.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product 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.
• 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.
• Identifies improvement opportunities and recommends possible technical solutions.
• Provides subject matter expertise in the analysis, preparation of specifications and plans for the development of data processes.
• Ensure proper data governance policies are followed by implementing or validating Data Lineage, Quality checks, classification, etc.
• Optimize the performance of ETL processes and scripts by working with other technical staff as needed.
• Provide business analysis and develop ETL code and scripting to meet all technical specifications and business requirements according to the established designs.
• Ability to quickly identify an opportunity and recommend possible technical solutions.
• Creates and enforces IT standards within the system/application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors Computer Science; Engineering; Informatics; Information Security; Information Technology or related field.

• 3+ years Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• Not required to movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
• No travel required ​​

Bonus Points If You Have

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) based solutions such as Snowflake and S3.
• Knowledge of Data Warehouse technology (Linux/Teradata/Ab Initio/Postgres/Oracle/Snowflake)
• Experience in migrating ETL processes (not just data) from relational warehouse Databases to AWS based solutions.
• Knowledge and experience using query languages for relational databases.

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.