What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Data Engineer position at Charles Schwab?
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.
Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.
As a member of the SAMS Technology team, you will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment. We're looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about learning new and existing technologies to drive exceptional production resiliency of our software products and systems. The role will require a strong work ethic, problem solving skills, and the ability to partner with business and technologists across the organization. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of successfully supporting enterprise level applications and platforms. The role will require a high level of responsibility and accountability.
The Platform Integration organization contains two teams that specialize in one of the following areas: database support or IT asset management. This role is on the database support team which requires some exposure to database administration task, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Our organization supports SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL with SQL Server covering the bulk of our applications.
What you have
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
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.
Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.
As a member of the SAMS Technology team, you will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment. We're looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about learning new and existing technologies to drive exceptional production resiliency of our software products and systems. The role will require a strong work ethic, problem solving skills, and the ability to partner with business and technologists across the organization. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of successfully supporting enterprise level applications and platforms. The role will require a high level of responsibility and accountability.
The Platform Integration organization contains two teams that specialize in one of the following areas: database support or IT asset management. This role is on the database support team which requires some exposure to database administration task, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Our organization supports SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL with SQL Server covering the bulk of our applications.
What you have
- 3-5 years of progressive experience supporting software deployment pipelines, database administration related tasks, and system configuration.
- Experienced in motivating change through automation, and passionate about adopting and driving a DevOps model.
- Responsibility for applications support primarily in lower (non-production) environments.
- Experience with setting, implementing, and reporting on operational critical metrics. Experience in planning, implementation, and support of business application components, including release management and release engineering.
- Broad and deep knowledge of IT/software technology trends, infrastructure support, application development, public cloud, web services, middleware, operating systems, databases, networking, security, and business intelligence.
- Agile methodologies and partnering with Agile development teams. Skilled at process design and improvement.
- Ability to grasp difficult concepts, large architectures, and sophisticated designs quickly.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related experience.
- Atlassian suite (JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence, Bamboo). Using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Atlassian tools, Github, and Remedy.
- Has worked with cloud-based service models. Experience with PaaS such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
- ITIL proficiency using problem management standard methodologies.
- Database administration skillset to establish data backup and recovery procedures, monitoring, query optimization tasks, and the ability assess data needs for server sizing requirements.
- Experience with SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL performing DBA tasks and migrating data.
- Splunk, App Dynamics, Linux & Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning.
- Experience supporting vendors and SaaS application platforms.
- Experience working in financial or banking industry.
- Written Communication - Expressing oneself clearly in business writing
- Thoroughness - Ensuring that one’s own and other’s work and information are complete and accurate Careful preparation for meetings and presentations Following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled
- Software Development - Implementing standards, processes, and methods to create, test, and verify software components, ensuring reliability and resolving operational problems and bugs
- Oral Communication - Expressing oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others
- Incident Response - Resolving reported incidents through streamlined processes, minimizing disruptions, and promptly restoring services
- Forward Thinking - Anticipating consequences of situations and taking appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance