Senior Database Administrator

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). This role is expected to be in the office 4 days a week in Austin, TX or Southlake, TX.

Schwab is a firm that leads with integrity and service, succeeds together as one team, and provides the opportunity to own your tomorrow. In this role, you’ll help modernize and strengthen the database platforms that support our Advisor Services business—work that directly enables scalable, reliable, and secure client-facing applications.

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Database Administrator on the Advisor Services Database Team, you’ll partner with engineers and product teams to support large-scale platforms and applications in a fast-moving, agile environment. You’ll contribute hands-on across development, DB administration, setting up future strategy/strategic planning, and production needs while helping raise the bar through automation, consistency, and mentoring.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support and evolve Oracle (primary), PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments through database maintenance, lifecycle management, migrations, upgrades, and automation.
• Tune and optimize performance, availability, and reliability (including capacity planning, indexing strategies, and workload analysis).
• Partner on patching and change execution, including scheduled after-hours and weekend maintenance as needed.
• Troubleshoot production issues end-to-end, develop cleanup and maintenance scripts, and drive root-cause resolution to prevent recurrence.
• Support high availability and disaster recovery capabilities (failover readiness, recovery processes, and operational validation).
• Participate in production support on-call rotation 24/7, including weekends as scheduled.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and best practices to support consistent operations and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level team members through coaching, pairing, and review of technical approaches.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have:

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of hands-on Oracle Database Administration experience, including RAC (Real Application Clusters), ASM, and Data Guard.
• Willingness to work in weekends and night shifts / US timing.
• Hands-on experience across DEV and PROD DBA responsibilities, including upgrades, migrations, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and GoldenGate.
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL skills, including performance tuning and optimization.
• Working knowledge of database security concepts (access controls, auditing, patching practices, and compliance-aligned operations).
• Scripting and automation experience (e.g., shell scripting, Perl, PowerShell) to streamline operational and maintenance tasks.
• Experience supporting high-availability and recovery capabilities, including troubleshooting failover scenarios and DR support.
• Experience developing or supporting ETL/data movement processes for large data sets.
• Experience using collaboration and delivery tools such as Microsoft Teams, Jira, Confluence, Remedy, Bamboo, and Bitbucket.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and tools (e.g., GitHub, GitHub Actions, Bamboo).
• Ability to write and maintain clear technical documentation and knowledge artifacts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PostgreSQL administration experience (including pgAdmin), on-prem and/or cloud; Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL experience is a plus.
• SQL Server administration and performance tuning experience.
• Foglight experience is a plus.
• Experience designing enterprise solutions for backup, monitoring, alerting, security compliance, and patching.
• Prior experience in the financial services industry.
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) certification.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring others and contributing to team learning and shared standards.
• Process improvement experience using AI is a plus.

 Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities