Senior Manager Software Engineering

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. 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.
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.
Job Summary
As Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Workday Integration), the individual will be primarily responsible for leading the direction and technical development of application engineering staff within Core Corporate Services and will be a servant leader to critical product teams responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of Discover's global HR systems Operations and Analytics (most of these applications reside on Workday and ServiceNow ) allowing this individual to lead and develop product teams operating on the latest Cloud technology. In addition, this individual will be focused on integration and will oversee maintenance and retirement of several legacy applications.
Position requires a hands-on servant leader and technical subject matter expert, accountable for effectively skilling, tooling and allocating engineering members to best support the needs of the HR Corporate Services product teams. Individual will be a critical member of Application Development Leadership Team helping shape technical vision for product area, which will include ensuring engineering team is aligned to vision and providing transparency that team can meet objectives.
Major Responsibilities

• Lead product teams in defining the technology design and building the competencies for engineers. This includes partnering closely with the HR stakeholders and product owners to define the target state technology design and ensuring continuous delivery of enhancements aligned to the objectives of the product teams.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to efficiently and effectively allocate team members to product teams to meet business and product area objectives.
• Oversee and support remediation of all regulatory/compliance, control, and audit findings for a set of applications.
• Manages software ownership and development from initial concept through continuous improvement advocating for an automation first mindset.
• Coach and support engineers to continuously improve their processes and practices by focusing on driving out waste, increasing quality, and exceeding business expectations.
• Question the status quo and lead by example in supporting the teams to own the product and create engineering solutions focusing on desired outcomes.
• Coach and mentor engineers and provide them with direction and guidance to achieve development goals and excel in technical and analytical capabilities.
• Mentor engineers in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly competent, consistent, thoughtful, and customer-centric technology experts. This includes ensuring the team is adhering to principles of engineering excellence within their technical domain, applying consistency of technical execution, sharing common practices and challenges within the team.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, problem solving, innovation, continuous learning, and a one team mindset.
• Hire, retain, lead a high-functioning, diverse group of engineering professionals, establishing clear objectives and key results, developing consistent set of practices and process, and driving towards resolution of challenging problems. Oversee performance management aspects of leading engineers including acquiring and providing 360 feedback and administering reviews.
• Engage with internal and external communities to share experiences, learn, contribute knowledge, advocate for Discover Technology brand.
• Participate in the Discover engineering community affecting and advancing the architecture across the company and ensuring adherence to all regulatory, compliance and audit requirements. This includes defining how technical work should be done, selecting appropriate tools, defining technology, quality, experience, and implementation standards and practices.

Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of experience in Application Development, or related
• 2+ years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we'd also look for

• Experience with Workday HCM and/Or ServiceNow Cloud platform
• Experience w/ HCM platform implementation/ migration
• Experience with SOX applications
• Experience with Agile and Lean Concepts
• Experience with AWS and hybrid cloud data strategy solutions
• Working or conceptual knowledge of Ab Initio / ETL technologies
• Working or conceptual knowledge of API integrations

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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Aug We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $125,500.00 to $211, Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
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
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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