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Senior Manager, Data Engineering (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

at Discover Financial Services

📍 McLean, VA Unknown 💰 $229K – $262K USD / year Posted March 26, 2026
Salary $229K – $262K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 6+ years
Education Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field
Category Data & Analytics

Senior Data Engineering role focused on building and managing large-scale data pipelines and platforms in a cloud environment, supporting enterprise data initiatives.

  • Design and develop data pipelines
  • Lead data engineering projects
  • Collaborate with data scientists and analysts
  • Implement data governance standards
  • Optimize data systems for performance

Environment includes cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), big data tools (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), data warehousing (Snowflake, Databricks), and ETL processes.

The ideal candidate is a senior data engineer with extensive experience in big data technologies, cloud platforms, and data pipeline development. They possess strong leadership skills and a solid background in application development and data governance.

Bachelor's Degreeat least 6 years of application development experienceat least 2 years of big data technologiesat least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud)4 years of people management experience
Master's Degree9+ years of application development including PythonSQLSparkETL toolsAWS Glue4+ years of experience with a public cloud (AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud)5+ years of distributed data/computing tools (MapReduceHadoopHiveEMRKafkaSparkMySQL)experience working on real-time data and streaming applications
SnowflakeDatabricksAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudKafkaHadoopSparkETL tools
PythonSQLSnowflakeDatabricksKafkaHadoopSparkETLdata pipelinesdistributed computing
PythonSQLOpen Source RDBMSNoSQL databasesSnowflakeDatabricksData pipelinesDistributed computingCloud computingAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudETL toolsSparkKafkaHadoopHDFS
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Industry Finance/Banking
Job Function Data engineering and platform development
Role Subtype Data Engineer
Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ETL, Data Pipelines, Distributed Computing
data engineeringbig datacloud computingAWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle CloudPythonSQLSparkKafkaHadoopETLData pipelinesDistributed computingSnowflakeDatabricksHDFSData qualityData governanceData modelingApplication developmentTeam management

Lack of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Less than 4 years of people management experience, No experience with big data tools like Spark or Hadoop, No Bachelor's degree

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