Principal technologist job description

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

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

Technical Architects at Discover develop technology strategies and future state architectures that enable value streams and product teams to deliver industry differentiating solutions. We combine deep technical domain understanding with a broad view of organizational concerns including business acumen, security, compliance, and product delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Designs with PCI / regulatory requirements within their technology and product space

• Delivers architectures that balance risk, security and operational excellence

• Services as a thought leader within their domain or product

• Keeps abreast of industry changes across their product family. Assesses relative merits of technology maturity against Discovers needs

• Demonstrates deep understanding of technical domain (e.g. compute, network cloud, API, frameworks, etc)

• Creates big-picture design view of product portfolio

Minimum Qualifications:

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related

• 8+ Years – Software Development, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture or related

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus architecture scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience with Openshift/Kubernetes

• Experience with AWS

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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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.

The last 12 months have been amazing for esports at Riot. We held our most-watched League of Legends Worlds Championship, and we ran our first global tournaments for VALORANT, Wild Rift, and Legends of Runeterra. On the back of that success, and in our ever-growing dedication to our mission to be the most player focused company in the world, we are doubling down on our investment in esports. We are doing this through our high-priority focus on Unleashing Fandom and Reinventing the Watch Experience and through investing in industry-leading innovations like Project Stryker.

The Sport IO team is focused on innovating in the broadcast storytelling experience as well as delivering tools and technology for esports tournament creation, operation, and management. We have a mix of user facing experiences through our web properties lolesports.com and valorantesports.com and back-end tools which are used by the broadcast producers and tournament operators.

As the Principal Technical Producer, you will have a mix of direct team leadership work as well as coordination and collaboration with other producers in the group to identify opportunities to assist them as they develop work systems, manage team health, manage project deliverables, and scale out their organizations. You will also need to identify opportunities to create cross-team work systems that allow us to achieve economies of scale, share practices, and work better together.
This role reports to the Director of Production for Riot Esports Tech R&D.


Responsibilities:
Coordinate and collaborate with a small team of other producers to collectively guide and lead the teams to execute against the feature roadmap to high quality and on time Lead and guide a multi-team group of ~15 - 25 people consisting of engineers, product managers, UX designers, and Quality Owners to bring player facing features and core infrastructure features to reality Build strong collaborations with multiple external vendors building tools and managing operations for our global esports tournaments. Implement initiative-wide work systems to manage activities such as staffing/headcount management and cross-division accountability tracking Implement accountability rituals wherein product teams review their commitments/delivery with organizational leadership and hold each other accountable for celebrating successes and learning from failures Own the quality of the experience for the player/customer through partnership with Engineering, Product Management, and QA Create alignment between organizations working towards common or complementary goals Dependency-manage across large business units with different cultures and operating models (internal or external) Proactively identify issues impacting work life balance/sustainable development in your teams and integrate sustainability tracking measures into the process Represent your business unit's staff, service, and tooling needs to the leadership team Adapt from a toolkit of methodologies to scale across teams and products


Required Qualifications:
7+ years experience launching large scale features, business critical efforts or cross-team projects on schedule and as part of a multi-phase launch plan. Experience shipping large-scale premium products on multiple platforms with a live service component 2+ years of team leadership experience growing and mentoring more junior individuals and building healthy, diverse, and inclusive teams Experience fluidly adapting methodologies in situations of high product or team complexity, or long duration Experience working on technical initiatives and technical product development and a capability to deeply engage with customers and development teams in technical discussions Strong alignment to servant leadership principles and the value and importance of ensuring psychological safety, healthy feedback culture and conflict management within and between teams


Desired Qualifications:
Experience working in med-large size organizations where collaboration across organizational boundaries is critical to success Experience leading and coordinating external development teams Leadership experience in game development, esports, or entertainment industries Experience leading and pivoting multiple teams/processes/efforts through a significant change in direction or operations Passion for esports and Riot's games


Our Perks:
Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the
Summoner's Code
and
Community Code
. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of
thriving together
and our ongoing work to build the
most inclusive company in Gaming
.
It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.

Humana is a Fortune 40 market leader in integrated healthcare whose dream is to help people achieve lifelong well-being. As a company focused on the health and well-being of the people we serve, Humana starts from within, and is committed to providing progressive benefits that advance the employment experience and vitality of the associate community. Through offerings anchored in a whole-person view of human well-being, Humana embraces a focus on stimulating positive individual and population changes while nurturing a sense of security, enabling people to live life fully and be their most productive.

Against that backdrop, we are seeking a talented and accomplished technology professional for the newly-created position of Technology Control Testing Principal - a position that resides in the Technology Cyber and Risk Management area of our Corporate IT organization. The Principal will be responsible for standing up a new IT functional capability that will focus on identifying and testing controls used to support both cyber and operational workflows and their associated risks, as well as performing risk analysis and identifying gaps in operational processes. This new function will touch every aspect of the IT domain and will extend into other areas such as Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, and others. This is a highly complex role that requires significant past experience establishing and leading an enterprise technology control testing function at a large organization.

The Principal will report directly to the Director, IT Compliance and IOP Management and can be based anywhere in the lower 48 states.
Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Performing Control / Risk Assessments and walkthroughs Establishing a 12 and 24 month technology control evaluation planning workflow Establishing key control testing workflows, templates, and procedures Developing and maintaining trusted and collaborative relationships with key peers and leaders across Information Technology teams Maintaining communication and collaborative partnerships with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Cyber Risk Management, and Internal Audit teams Making decisions independently and proactively empower associates to drive change Operating in in an ‘Agile' environment Leading talent management and culture efforts, associate training, development, and engagement Encouraging innovation, evaluation, and implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

Key Candidate Qualifications

In general terms, the successful candidate will have extensive experience (typically 10+ years) leading an IT Risk Management or IT Control Management function in a large corporation (i.e., Fortune 250). Ideally, this will include building such a function from the ground up. He/she will have a successful track record in facilitating and consulting across teams and managing projects and proven ability to perform risk analysis and the identification and surfacing of gaps in operational processes. A Bachelor's degree is required, as are CISA and CRISC certifications. Although not required, a Master's degree and CISM or CGEIT certifications will be highly desirable.

In addition to the above, the following technical qualifications and personal attributes are also sought:
Strong focus on attention to detail and documentation skills Exceptional influencing skills that combine a highly collaborative mindset with the ability to stand firm in the face of resistance from diverse stakeholders and SMEs, and win their co-ownership in the outcomes.Strong business/organizational acumen with a deep understanding of the interconnectedness that exists between diverse areas and the downstream and upstream impacts that may result from actions that are taken Excellent oral and written communications skills, including experience in presenting complex findings to senior executives up to and including a CIO; the polish, poise, and executive presence that will ensure effective interaction with senior and executive level audiences Familiarity with industry technology control frameworks such as NIST, COBIT, and ITIL.Understanding of Three Lines of Defense model Ability to operate in ambiguity and navigate complex technology interdependencies Previous Humana IT experience Experience with Enterprise Solution Point (ESP) Experience with ServiceNow (Incident Management, Change Enablement, and CMDB modules)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40