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Discover. A brighter future.

With Discover, youll have the chance to make a difference at one of the worlds leading digital banking and payments companies. From Day 1, youll do meaningful work youre passionate about, with the support and resources you need for success. We value what makes each employee unique and provide a collaborative, team-based culture that gives everyone an opportunity to shine. Be the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future, while building the future you want, here at Discover.

Job Description



If youre a deep thinker with a track record of breakthrough improvements eager to solve Discovers most complex, critical challenges, drive millions of dollars of impact, and have visibility to our C-Suite, then continue reading!

Discover is seeking a Lead Process Engineer for Discovers Special Operations team, which is comprised of creative problem solvers and strategic software engineers who collaborate with our internal clients to understand their challenges and architect solutions. We are at the cross section of business and engineering helping teams within Discover to reach their goals by finding technology solutions to meet their needs.
What youll do:

This role will be partnering with business and technology teams to assess and re-engineer processes and manual activities in the pursuit of automation. He/she ensures efficient and compliant servicing operations while ensuring world-class customer experience.
How youll do it:

As a Lead Process Engineer, you will work as a core member of our interdisciplinary teams and will be expected to quickly contribute as a project leader and trusted advisor to our senior leaders. You will orchestrate and deliver viable solutions for our businesses to adopt by translating strategies into action, delivering significant ROI, reducing risk, and achieving enterprise-wide strategic objectives. As part of a typical day, you will guide business stakeholders to spearhead breakthrough improvements and partner with key support functions such as Finance, HR, and Compliance during implementation. You will also develop relationships with our businesses (e.g., Consumer Banking, Credit Cards) to identify ongoing challenges and new project opportunities.

Responsibilities
* Responsible and accountable for the planning and execution of the most complex and impactful projects. Collaborates with business partners on process enhancements, communicates operational implications, and suggests alternatives that may achieve the same objectives but with more favorable impact to operations (e.g., lower cost, less complexity), commits to approaches selected by leadership and leads the implementation.
* Plans, coordinates, and executes activities that support business partner initiatives across the organization and ensures operations expectations for timeliness, quality, and efficiency are delivered in conjunction with internal and external parties.
* Manages relationships with business partners and management of system-related projects from idea to implementation. Manage communications and relationships with the companys most influential leaders to understand customer and business needs, conduct current-state analysis, explore uncommon approaches, mitigate risk, and deliver sustainable solutions
* Ensures that sound operational processes and procedures are developed and documented. Continuously improve the teams internal efficiency and effectiveness to set the company standard by identifying opportunities, generating creative solutions, and supporting the teams balanced OKRs
* Maintain partnerships with business units after project transition to facilitate execution of implementation plans and ensure solutions are maintained by the process owners. Actively monitors servicing quality levels, communicates opportunities for improvement, and collaborates with operations to improve service levels.
* Development of the project pipeline by partnering with stakeholders to identify project opportunities across the firm
* Develops any necessary remediation plans and ensures their timely completion.

Qualifications:

The Basics:

* Bachelor's Degree in Business, Arts and Sciences, or related field
* 6+ years of experience in Customer Service or Financial Services Operations
* In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of experience in applicable line of business (Deposits, Personal Loans, Student Loans), or related field

Bonus Points if you have:

* 3+ years of experience in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field,
* 3+ years of experience as a Project Leader (Financial Services, Management Consulting or Entrepreneurial industries is a plus)
* Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (ASQ preferred)
* Knowledge of automation technologys such as RPA, BPM, OCR etc
* Outstanding communication and attention to detail while helping senior leaders make difficult and innovative decisions
* Comfortable with ambiguity and taking ownership, and able to define your own role
* Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills with an ability to determine an appropriate level of detail given project milestones.
* Manage and execute projects with a strong bias for action; ability to effectively prioritize projects and meet aggressive, recurring deadlines.
* Superior customer service skills, demonstrating an intense focus on the customer experience.
* Experience working in highly collaborative environments
* Experience in the e-commerce or payments industries
* Experience with payment processing solutions

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What are you waiting for? Apply today!

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

US Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package starts day one and features insurance, financial planning support and excellent perks designed to help you reach your goals and live a rich, healthy life. These include:

* Paid time off (at minimum, 20 personal days + 7 holidays per year)
* The Discover College Commitment covers 100% of the required costs for eligible* employees to earn select business and technology bachelors degrees from three of the countrys top universities for working adults
* 401K with company match and fixed contribution
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan
* Full service cafeteria featuring Starbucks and subsidized Mindful options
* Access to fitness center
* Opportunities to volunteer in the community
* Development groups and training
* On-site Health Clinics
* Onsite Employee Assistance Program Counselors
* Discover Care@Work Family Assistance Program (Discounted childcare at participating centers, free care.com membership, and subsidized Backup Care Services)
* Perks at Work (access discounts from over 30,000 merchants, earning WOWPoints while you shop)

*For eligibility requirements and program details, please refer to MyDiscoverBenefits.com

UK Benefits

* Competitive Salary
* Competitive Pension Scheme
* Annual Incentive Scheme
* Up to 25 days annual leave per calendar year
* Private Health Care is a taxable benefits
* Annual health assessments
* Flexi Fridays
* Eye Care Vouchers
* Perks @ Work
* Ride to Work (Cycle Scheme)
* Season Ticket loan
* You Care We Share (Charity program that has matching contributions)
* Volunteering Hours
* Study Leave (5 days)
* EAP- Employee Assistance Program
* Dental plan (Taxable benefit)