Senior Manager Application Integration

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:

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for managing a team that oversees and executes the construction, integration, overall resiliency, release management, monitoring, observability, and ongoing operations for applications. Manages application connectivity and data flows from customer entry point and surrounding technology components.

• Develops and coaches’ teams to be able to identify, manage, and escalate risk, and effectively manage risk within the teams you oversee.

How You’ll Do It

• Manage a technology team. Leads team and peers to ensure capacity and performance management is compliant.
• Oversee application release management.
• Manage change control for applications and platforms.
• Manage disaster recovery and compliance plans.
• Lead business and budget planning to align with product roadmaps.
• Communicate with Officers and Directors, peer Managers, and team members.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology
• 6+ years’ experience in Payments and or equivalent technology industry, or related experience
• In Lieu of Education Experience, 8+ years’ experience in Payments and or equivalent technology industry, or related experience

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.
• Frequently move 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.
• Travel up to 10% of the time.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with SRE design to address reliability and resiliency with availability of 5-9s
• Experience in working in a cloud environment (OCP and AWS EMR).
• Experience with application monitoring tools, observability, and performance assessments.
• Strong experience with DevOps (CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub)
• High level of familiarity with the Linux command line and scripting
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring and testing
• Experience developing automation solutions in Java, bash, Python, Perl (or other similar languages)
• Extremely comfortable with production environments, firewalls, and networking
• Studied architectural patterns at scale, including thoughtfully designed APIs, repeatable delivery pipelines, and efficient computer engineering principles.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team
• Strong experience in deploying, observing, altering, logging, and monitoring systems (Splunk, Datadog) with a mindset towards predictive analysis.
• Working knowledge of the automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform.
• People management experience in leading a high performing team.

**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.**

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Application Deadline:

Compensation:

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)

Discover complies with federal, state, and local laws applicable to qualified individuals with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, to complete an application, and/or to participate in an interview, please email HireAccommodation@discover.com. Any information you provide regarding your accommodation needs will be kept confidential and will only be used to determine and provide necessary accommodation.

At Discover, we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace through our Fair Chance Hiring practices. Fair Chance Hiring means that we base our hiring decisions on an applicant’s qualifications rather than their criminal record. All our positions are subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Our applicants go through a background check, and we follow all applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance (LA County Fair Chance).

Applicants must be 18 or older at the time of hire.