What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Specialist, Software Development & Engineering position at Charles Schwab Inc.?
Your Opportunity
Wealth and Asset Management Engineering (WAME) is a part of the Schwab Technology Services organization. WAME organization supports Schwab's money management, research and asset management platforms to help clients manage their wealth. The Financial Research technology team within WAME delivers and supports Investment research applications and products used by Schwab Representatives and our Clients as they plan for their financial futures and wealth management.
As a Software Developer (Sr Specialist) for SAMS Research Technology, you will join the team as a developer delivering solutions for the business. Based on your technical skillsets, quantitative research skills, and deep interest in our financial research domain you could be working on any of our workstreams specializing in financial research engineering or cloud data engineering or traditional full stack app dev:
This position will enable delivering high quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing delivery environment. It requires highly motivated and focused developers curious to build new and innovative solutions for our Clients
What you’ll do:
- Design, develop and drive the next generation/cloud ready applications for Research enterprise solutions targeted for Schwab consultants and clients
- Participate in ground up modernization projects to improve user experience and collaborate with the technical architects to develop modern technical architectures
- Enhance our research application platforms using our Java micro service event driven architecture
- Angular based UI development projects to automate workflow functions
- Support and enhance our financial research data pipelines and model development infrastructure in R, Matlab and Python
- Develop dashboard visualization apps using Python, Plot.ly DASH
- Database implementation projects to analyze client trading data and data migration
- Support and uplift infrastructure on existing financial research data pipeline implementations.
- Performing regression testing, smoke testing and integration testing to ensure the quality of application.
- Develop test automation frameworks to validate frontend and backend workloads.
- Enable our target state cloud research data lake platform implementation.
- Be a champion of new ways of collaborating with technology and business partners
- Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies leveraging tools like GitHub/Bamboo with a DevOps philosophy
- Perform level 2/3 production support activities Be a champion of new ways of collaborating with technology and business partners
- Influence and implement improvements and efficiencies in the technical aspects of the development process
- Ensure the highest quality software is developed, delivered and maintained
- Be a key leader in the agile process fostering collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency
- Be a mentor and positive role model to junior members of the team
What you have
Wealth and Asset Management Engineering (WAME) is a part of the Schwab Technology Services organization. WAME organization supports Schwab's money management, research and asset management platforms to help clients manage their wealth. The Financial Research technology team within WAME delivers and supports Investment research applications and products used by Schwab Representatives and our Clients as they plan for their financial futures and wealth management.
As a Software Developer (Sr Specialist) for SAMS Research Technology, you will join the team as a developer delivering solutions for the business. Based on your technical skillsets, quantitative research skills, and deep interest in our financial research domain you could be working on any of our workstreams specializing in financial research engineering or cloud data engineering or traditional full stack app dev:
This position will enable delivering high quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing delivery environment. It requires highly motivated and focused developers curious to build new and innovative solutions for our Clients
What you’ll do:
- Design, develop and drive the next generation/cloud ready applications for Research enterprise solutions targeted for Schwab consultants and clients
- Participate in ground up modernization projects to improve user experience and collaborate with the technical architects to develop modern technical architectures
- Enhance our research application platforms using our Java micro service event driven architecture
- Angular based UI development projects to automate workflow functions
- Support and enhance our financial research data pipelines and model development infrastructure in R, Matlab and Python
- Develop dashboard visualization apps using Python, Plot.ly DASH
- Database implementation projects to analyze client trading data and data migration
- Support and uplift infrastructure on existing financial research data pipeline implementations.
- Performing regression testing, smoke testing and integration testing to ensure the quality of application.
- Develop test automation frameworks to validate frontend and backend workloads.
- Enable our target state cloud research data lake platform implementation.
- Be a champion of new ways of collaborating with technology and business partners
- Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies leveraging tools like GitHub/Bamboo with a DevOps philosophy
- Perform level 2/3 production support activities Be a champion of new ways of collaborating with technology and business partners
- Influence and implement improvements and efficiencies in the technical aspects of the development process
- Ensure the highest quality software is developed, delivered and maintained
- Be a key leader in the agile process fostering collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and transparency
- Be a mentor and positive role model to junior members of the team
What you have:
- 6 years demonstrated hands-on real-world experience in enterprise application development and testing.
- Advanced degree in computer science or financial engineering degree with strong programming skills.
- Ability to learn a diverse tech stack and deliver solutions with customer focus.
- Demonstrated experience in server-side service development and expertise with enterprise integration patterns.
- 6 years of demostrated experience developing quality assurance frameworks using MABL, Selenium, Cucumber/Python.
- 3 years of experience working with Schwab business domains as a current or recent contractor or employee
- Experience using Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform or similar stack. Experience with developing and deploying Cloud ready applications
- Prefer experience working on data science and cloud data platform engineering frameworks.
- Exposure to Apache Kafka/ Rabbit MQ and other messaging frameworks
- Demonstrated real world experience in software engineering principles, such as software design patterns
- Demonstrated real world experience in database principles, such as MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, MongoDB or Hadoop
- Prefer exposure to data analytics using Python/R/Matlab
- Working knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment and DevOps principles. Understanding of BDD and TDD styles
- Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values and procedures
- Experience mentoring and guiding junior developers
- Experience building designs and reviewing them with architects
- Attention to details
- Curiosity to understand and leverage new tools and technologies
- Strong desire to leverage technology to build products that "wow" users
- Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate
- Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems
What you’ll get:
- Comprehensive Compensation and Benefits package
- Financial Health: 401k Match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Discounts, Personalized advice, Brokerage discounts
- Work/Life Balance: Sabbatical, Paid Parental Leave, New Mothers returning to work Program, Tuition Reimbursement Programs, Time off to volunteer, Employee Matching Gifts Program
- Everyday Wellness: Health and Lifestyle Wellness Rewards, Onsite Fitness Classes, Healthy Food Choices, Wellness Champions
- Inclusion: Employee Resource Groups, Commitment to diversity, Strategic partnerships
- Not just a job, but a career, with an opportunity to do the best work of your life
