Sr 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 lead 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 technical engineering lead will be a hands-on lead engineer with technical/business acumen and lead experience that excels in a structured, dynamic, fast-moving environment and is passionate about developing high quality, high performance, and scalable solutions. The candidate will lead and work aside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the system health and ensure the on-time, 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, and build a future state data platform that is going to be pivotal to drive client-centricity, reducing time to market, scale & increasing efficiency. Ideal candidates enjoy creating structure in a fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity, 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:

• Provide technical and project leadership to data pipeline development.
• Drive Agile development supporting organization priorities and innovation.
• Hands-on development and mentoring junior team members to ensure team and project success.
• Drive outcomes and team performance and collaborate with all to achieve results.
• Work closely with development, product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
• Effectively navigate cross-functional communication to ensure alignment between teams and within one team.
• Cultivate 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.
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, Development, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time.
• Identify technology risks and dependencies early to establish mitigation plans.
• Create and maintain artifacts for production support and deployment processes and ensure smooth hand off to support teams.
• Meet periodically with onshore and offshore developers and application support to review and improve processes.
• Demonstrated ability to disagree, debate your case with data, and commit to deliver regardless of the outcome.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise in ETL development, MS SQL Server database, TSQL/Stored Procedure, SSIS and SSRS
• Exceptional track record in delivering results and business outcomes
• Experience in maturing teams at different levels
• Masters or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or similar/equivalent area of study
• Minimum of 5 years working in the financial services industry.
• Minimum of 12 years of solid data engineering experience.
• Minimum of 5 years project lead experience in matrixed organization
• Solid grasp of data warehousing and Operational Data principles and ETL best practices.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and coach developers.
• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Willingness to learn new skills and keep up with technology changes in future to meet business needs.
• Prior experience working in an onshore offshore model driving development outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Trading and data platforms supporting financial services use cases
• Good understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines
• Experience providing guidance, direction, and feedback to other technical staff to meet agreed upon objectives.
• Ability to analyze, propose and implement timely, effective, quality solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical presentations or other forms of documentation to various levels of technical and non-technical management.
• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a well-organized, dynamic, geographically dispersed environment
• 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 with mapping data required for regulatory, non-regulatory data needs
• Experience and demonstrate proficiency in cloud-based technologies (GCP preferred).

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