Data Engineer

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are 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.

Schwab is recruiting an outcome driven, results-oriented, well organized data technology specialist who shares our passion for technology, innovation, people, and excellence. Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests. We are in the midst of re-architecting and rebuilding our core enterprise data platform to support our rapidly growing and evolving business. The Sr Specialist will be a hands-on developer with technical acumen that excels in a structured, dynamic, fast-moving environment and is passionate about developing high quality, high performance, and scalable solutions. The candidate will develop data solutions and work aside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the system health and ensure the quality delivery of software releases.

This position will be part of the Operational Data Exchange (ODX) Technology team within the Schwab Data organization focusing on providing Operational Intelligence and Insights, and position Schwab to remain a Data Driven organization using a world class Data Exchange (DX) platform. The DX support various critical business functions and business units – Finance, Futures & Forex Trading, Risk, Compliance, etc. This is a role for someone who is passionate and excited to learn/understand the business, focus on basics and streamline existing system to make is stable that is pivotal to drive client-centricity, reducing time to market, scale & increasing efficiency. Ideal candidates enjoy working in a structured fast-paced environments and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more stable integrated solutions, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.

In this role you will:

• Have expertise in data pipeline development.
• Experience working in Agile development environment supporting organization priorities and innovation.
• Work closely with technical lead, development team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
• Embrace a culture of open feedback that promotes accountability for getting better together.
• Collaborate with other shared functions to support application support and automation for deployments.
• Create and maintain artifacts for production support and deployment processes and ensure smooth hand off to support teams.
• Work with onshore and offshore developers and application support to review and improve processes.
• Demonstrated ability to bring forward ideas and thoughts, disagree, debate your case with data, and commit to deliver regardless of the outcome.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Experienced in ETL development, MS SQL Server database, TSQL/Stored Procedure, SSIS and SSRS
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or similar/equivalent area of study
• Minimum of 3-5 years of solid data engineering experience.
• Willingness to learn new skills and keep up with technology changes in future to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in financial services industry and use cases
• Good understanding of Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines
• Ability to analyze, propose and implement solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility.
• Good verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical documentation to various levels of technical management.
• Proficient to seek clarity on priorities in a well-organized dynamic, fast paced team
• Good understanding of Database and SQL
• Good understanding of Data pipelines and patterns.
• Experience in Python coding skills
• Experience in dev tools such as GitHub, Bamboo, Liquibase
• Experience in creating source to target data mapping

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