✦ Luna Orbit — Data & Analytics

Senior Data Engineer

at Discover Financial Services

📍 McLean, VA Unknown 💰 $161K – $184K USD / year Posted March 16, 2026
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Position Details

Salary $161K – $184K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience mid
Exp. Years 3+ years
Education Bachelor's Degree
Category Data & Analytics

About this role

This role involves developing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and analytics solutions at Discover Financial Services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design data pipelines
  • Develop scalable data solutions
  • Support real-time data streaming
  • Optimize data storage
  • Collaborate with data science teams

Technical Overview

Technical scope includes big data processing, data warehousing, distributed computing, and cloud-based data platforms using Java, Scala, Python, and tools like Redshift and Snowflake.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a mid-level data engineer with 3+ years of experience in big data technologies, proficient in Python, SQL, Scala, and cloud data warehousing tools.

Must-Have Skills

Bachelor's Degreeapplication developmentbig data technologies

Nice-to-Have Skills

PythonSQLScalaJavaAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudMapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkGurobiMySQLMongoCassandraRedshiftSnowflakeUNIX/Linuxshell scriptingAgile

Tools & Platforms

RedshiftSnowflakeHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkMongoDBCassandra

Required Skills

JavaScalaPythonRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkNoSQLMongoDBCassandraUNIX/Linuxshell scripting

Hard Skills

JavaScalaPythonRedshiftSnowflakeOpen Source RDBMSNoSQLMongoDBCassandraDistributed dataBig dataData warehousing

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingmentoringcommunicationteamwork

Industry & Role

Industry Fintech
Job Function Build and optimize data pipelines and analytics infrastructure
Role Subtype Data Engineer
Tech Domains Python, Java, Scala, SQL / PostgreSQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redshift, Snowflake, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Unix / Linux

Keywords for Your Resume

Data Engineerbig dataapplication developmentPythonScalaJavaSQLNoSQLMongoDBCassandraRedshiftSnowflakeHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkUnixshell scriptingAgile

Deal Breakers

Lack of experience with big data tools, No proficiency in Python or SQL, No cloud data warehousing experience

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