Senior Developer, Java Application Development – Digital Platform Services (Job ID# P135449)

Join our team as an Associate Developer, Application Development leading our next generation Digital Platform Services solution. We’re looking for passionate, collaborative individuals that can help shape the evolution of payments and position Discover Financial Services as the leading direct bank and payments partner.
The Senior Associate Developer is primarily responsible for developing large scale customer facing solutions (real-time and front-end). You will design and integrate systems for Discover’s new Digital Platform Services solution by using Agile development methodologies to support existing and new product features.

You will be successful in this role at Discover if you can:
• Partner with the Business and Technology teams by contributing to the planning and execution of projects, ensuring that your design and code contribution is of high quality.
• Break down complex requirements into workable technical solutions to solve the product owner’s problems.
• Design and develop high quality software for large scale Java/J2EE distributed systems by
• Writing System and Functional Requirements documentation as required.
• Writing Technical design documentation (high and low level) as required.
• Writing and executing Implementation plans.
• Executing Unit and System Testing
• Collaborate with other developers on code reviews and process enhancements.
• Actively contribute to instill best practices to support a strong software architecture.
• Be reliable, self-motivated, and focused on high quality delivery of work products and willing to accept responsibility and accountability.
• Assist peers in resolving highly complex technical problems.
• Integrate our Security first and proactive audit/compliance mindset into the team.
• Provide level 3 support, as required for the Digital Platform Services, including some out of hours support.

Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes

Qualifications

Educational and Experience Requirements:
• 3-5 years of overall technology experience in Java/J2EE development domain and Agile/Scrum environment.
• Proven experience of being involved in the delivery and implementation of business critical projects of large scope and technical complexity.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems (related/commensurate experience acceptable).
Core Behavioral and Technical Requirements:
• Strong leadership, project management, time management and problem solving skills with demonstrated ability to command large audiences and management stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and business acumen.
• Strong Java/J2EE development background capable of independent leading a development team and providing input to both high level architectural design and low level designs.
• Expected to be technically strong in the following general areas: Java J2EE (Java 1.7/Java 1.8), Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JMS/MQ, RESTful services. Front end GUI applications that use a variety of technologies including JSF 2, Primefaces, HTML, Ajax. Continuous Integration (with Jenkins, Nexus), Gradle, Github, Websphere application server / tcServer / WMQ, Oracle Exadata.
• Experience with Scrum methodology and Agile development practices.
• Understanding of testing frameworks and software quality assurance methods.
• Understanding of PAAS and cloud based architecture.
• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.
• Be passionate about delivering quality, world-class solutions for your business partners and stakeholders/customers of our Company.
• Possess a proven history of innovation in a fast paced environment and the ability to thrive in an environment of constant change.
• Experience in the payments ecosystem.
• Experience in supporting and working within virtual or remote teams.
• Strong communication skills including a high command of verbal and written English.
• Ability to travel as needed (domestically and internationally). Less than 10% annually.
• Experience with Tokenization, Layer7 (CA API), Mobile Wallet platforms
• PCI DSS Experience

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