What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Engineer (Performance Engineering) position at Discover Financial Services?
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In-Office : Houston, Texas; Riverwoods, Illinois
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 : What You’ll Do
Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. 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, 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.
- Identifies system tuning and optimization through annual benchmark testing by identifying capacity threshold adjustments and platform resource assignment.
- Develops benchmarking capabilities and reports for production capacity.
- Develops performance and capacity reporting for all PULSE BT (Business Technology) applications and systems.
- Utilizes various capacity and performance management tools.
- Utilizes various testing solutions in pre-production environments.
- Determines current utilization and capacity of systems supporting PULSE business.
- Monitors systems daily performance to identify trends, issues related to capacity gaps, and results of planned changes.
- Ensures systems builds and client implementations meet PULSE standards for resiliency and reliability.
- Uses automation, system tools, open source solutions, observability, and 'security first' principles in daily work.
- Achieves team commitments (and influences 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.
- Creates and enforces IT standards within the system / application infrastructure and compatibility with the architecture of the platform.
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics
Physical And Cognitive Responsibilities
Bonus Points If You Have
If we had our say, we’d also look for :
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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.
Application Deadline :
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jan-13-2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
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