Principal Application Engineer

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:

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.

Uses vast repertoire of delivering high impact software solutions to work intuitively. Speed comes from intuition. If something breaks you know where to look. Typically does the tough parts – e.g. (re)design and spends more time documenting than coding. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with application development, Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering teams for test planning, analysis requirement, and for defining success criteria.
  • Provide Technical and Application support on Connex Switch 
  • Construct and Maintenance of test Environment.
  • Prepare test plan, test methodologies and test setup.
  • Execute required test on each release and submit test report on time.
  • Prepare and present the test reports and metrics clearly to the project team.
  • Logging issues and follow up to get the fix.
  • Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
  • Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains. As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.
  • Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
  • Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
  • Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain, design-thinking, agile software development way of working, security, architecture and/or data engineering.

Minimum Qualifications

Here’s what we need from you:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related.
  • 6+ years of experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related.
  • Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

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

  • At least 6-8 years of working experience with Connex on HPE NonStop and Connex Environment Database
  • Knowledge on Card Payments and EFT
  • Familiar with different ISO8583 formats like Visa, MasterCard, NYCE, STAR, EPOC, AFFN, PULSE
  • Hands-on experience on using Paragon WebFASTest. Ability to build and configure test scripts and simulate various transactions like ATM, POS, EMV Contact & Contactless and Magstripe. 
  • Good to have knowledge and prior experience on ATM, POS and EMV transactions.
  • Familiar with settlements, reports and reconciliation.

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.