Discover Ready to Hire the Next Generation of Women Technology Leaders
19 September 2019 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Discover to Make Job Offers
and Provide Innovative Career Advice
for Attendees of Grace Hopper Celebration
When the world’s largest gathering of women technologists kicks
off next month in Orlando, Fla., Discover, one of the largest
direct banks in the U.S. and a global payments network with a
history of industry-leading technology innovations, will be making
job offers to help fill more than 300 roles across technology and
data science.
Discover is building on their commitment to supporting women in
technology through its Diamond-level sponsorship of AnitaB.org’s
2019 Grace Hopper Celebration and Community Hall sponsorship this
October 1-4. Discover will be bringing more than 70 employees
across technology and data science to connect with the 25,000
attendees from around the world expected to attend this year’s
event.
Since 1994, Grace Hopper Celebration, named in honor of one of
the most highly decorated female U.S. naval officers and computer
programming pioneer Grace Murray Hopper, has been bringing together
the best minds in computing to highlight the contributions of women
to the field.
“We will be there to let women know that Discover is a
technology-forward company that is worlds away from being just a
credit card company,” said Jennifer Burns, director of candidate
brand at Discover. “We are a thriving U.S. consumer direct bank
with one of the world’s largest payments networks. We can offer
technologists an incredible and challenging career in a company
culture committed to helping people succeed. The candidates we hire
through Grace Hopper Celebration will help us build the next
generation of breakthrough technologies in financial services. They
will receive opportunities to work on projects that they might not
have at the big-name tech companies; and we think they will find a
hard-to-match quality of life.”
Discover’s continued success in direct banking and payments has
led to an increasing need for top technology talent. It is
consistently ranked as a best place to work for IT professionals,
with 2019 marking the 16th year that Discover was selected by
Computerworld as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT. At Grace
Hopper Celebration, Discover will be looking for individuals who
want a career working in data science, development or engineering
in the Chicago area.
Attendees who visit Discover’s booth can talk to leaders across
the organization with more than 15 vice presidents and three
executive committee members attending. Visitors also can play
Discover’s Make a Match game to match with open roles at Discover
and to see how strong a fit Discover is with their long-term career
goals.
The event is co-sponsored by AnitaB.org and the Association of
Computing Machinery.
Discover experts presenting at the celebration include Kim
Holmes, a Discover leader with more than 20 years of experience in
technology and helping to lead Discover’s diversity and inclusion
hiring. She will be on the panel titled Women, Technologists:
Trajectory of Wealth, Oct. 2, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
To get a head start on a technology career with Discover, visit
jobs.discover.com.
At the celebration visit booth 430 and follow the
#myMatchisDiscover on Twitter throughout the event.
About Discover
Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) is a direct banking and
payment services company with one of the most recognized brands in
U.S. financial services. Since its inception in 1986, the company
has become one of the largest card issuers in the United States.
The company issues the Discover card, America's cash rewards
pioneer, and offers private student loans, personal loans, home
equity loans, checking and savings accounts and certificates of
deposit through its direct banking business. It operates the
Discover Global Network comprised of Discover Network, with
millions of merchant and cash access locations; PULSE, one of the
nation's leading ATM/debit networks; and Diners Club International,
a global payments network with acceptance around the world. For
more information, visit www.discover.com/company.
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