Sr Specialist - Software Development & Engineering

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. Job Duties : 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 Springboot micro service, event driven, RabbitMQ architecture. Design and implement scalable, high-performance RESTful APIs for delivering Research Data to end users. Assess API performance metrics leveraging tools such as JMetrics. 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, Plotly Dash. Database implementation projects to analyze client trading data and data migration. Support and uplift infrastructure on existing financial research data pipeline implementations. 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 Job Requirements : Requires Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 60 months of progressive, post-Bachelor’s experience in a related occupation. . Experience must include 60 months of experience involving the following: Designing and developing Java Springboot microservices and event-driven platforms; building scalable, high-performance RESTful APIs with enterprise integration patterns; using RabbitMQ for asynchronous communication and event processing; SQL and No SQL Databases including MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, and MongoDB; Supporting investment research capabilities in Python, Matlab and Kotlin coding languages; Building responsive, user-focused applications with Angular and JavaScript; Developing and deploying cloud-ready applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or similar cloud platforms for investment solutions; developing and deploying applications on Linux Virtual Machines; CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and GitHub; and Agile methodologies and Atlassian tools including JIRA and Confluence. We offer competitive pay and benefits. Starting compensation depends on related experience. Annual bonus and other eligible earnings are not included in the ranges above. Benefits include: 401(k) w/ company match; employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, volunteering, 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; hybrid/remote work schedule available for eligible positions (subject to Schwab’s internal approach to workplace flexibility).