What are the responsibilities and job description for the Production Support Specialist 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. 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).
Duties
As a member of the Schwab Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) Tech Ops – Production Support and Change Management, the individual will be supporting a suite of on-premises, Saas and on Cloud Investment Management systems and working closely with key business stakeholders, application developers and third-party vendors and data providers for issue analysis and resolutions. The individual will be responsible for continuous improvements in the Level1 and Level 2 production support teams; improve and streamline critical business processes - Overnight batch process, Business Ready Checks, Health Checks Automation; help to promote the overall support strategy, including transformation initiatives of automation and proactive monitoring of infrastructure and processes. List of duties include, but not limited to the following:
Required
What’s in it for you
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. 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).
Duties
As a member of the Schwab Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) Tech Ops – Production Support and Change Management, the individual will be supporting a suite of on-premises, Saas and on Cloud Investment Management systems and working closely with key business stakeholders, application developers and third-party vendors and data providers for issue analysis and resolutions. The individual will be responsible for continuous improvements in the Level1 and Level 2 production support teams; improve and streamline critical business processes - Overnight batch process, Business Ready Checks, Health Checks Automation; help to promote the overall support strategy, including transformation initiatives of automation and proactive monitoring of infrastructure and processes. List of duties include, but not limited to the following:
- Proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve all issues affecting production applications. This involves coordination with and escalation to development and external teams where necessary. This team is responsible for all issues escalated to WAM Engineering until they are resolved or a workaround is provided to end users.
- Provide clear, concise, and timely communication to affected parties during the investigation and resolution of any individual or system-wide outage.
- Responsible for ensuring the Change Implementation Management policies are adhered to for all changes deployed to Production.
- Work with development teams at the appropriate stages to ensure the support strategy guidelines are followed and new systems or projects meet the Production standards.
- Continuous update knowledge repository, ensure information regarding any support related activities or issues are available and easily accessible.
- Responsible for servicing all requests for data or other activities that require access to Production systems.
Required
- 3 of experience in Windows, Linux and public cloud environment
- 5 years of experience in Microsoft SQL Server and cloud databases
- 3 years of experience in Informatica ETL
- 3 years of experience in Debuggers, Splunk, AppDynamics
- 3 years of experience with Control-M or any enterprise scheduler
- 3 years of experience in at least one cloud environment such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure
- 3 years of experience in monitoring tools such as Grafana, Datadog, Splunk
- 3 years of experience in Github, BitBucket or Bamboo
- Asset Management Industry Knowledge
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, C# or Java, .Net, JavaScript, and shell scripting
- Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree preferably in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- 1-3 years of support/developer experience in financial services, preferably Asset Management
What’s in it for you
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