About the Role
Schwab is seeking an outcome-driven, results-oriented, and organized data technology leader to join the Operational Data Exchange (ODX) Technology team. This role focuses on providing operational intelligence and insights, leveraging a world-class Data Exchange (DX) platform to support critical business functions. The ideal candidate will be passionate about understanding corporate systems, building a strong team, streamlining existing systems for stability, and developing a future-state data platform crucial for client-centricity, reduced time-to-market, and increased efficiency. This is a unique opportunity to drive significant business transformation through improved time-to-market, more stable integrated solutions, and enhanced project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic, technical, and project leadership to data pipeline development.
- Understand business needs and align solutions to drive delivery.
- Drive Agile development supporting organizational priorities and innovation.
- Provide hands-on development and mentoring to ensure team and project success.
- Drive outcomes and team performance, collaborate to achieve results, and think strategically.
- Collaborate with development, product owner, and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
- Navigate cross-functional communication to ensure alignment between and within teams.
- Cultivate a culture of open feedback that promotes accountability for continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with shared functions to support application support and automation for deployments.
- Interface with product owners and key stakeholders to ensure high-quality software project delivery on time and on budget.
- Identify technology risks and dependencies early to establish mitigation plans.
- Create and maintain artifacts for production support and deployment processes.
- Meet periodically with onshore and offshore developers and application support to review and improve processes.
Requirements
- Expertise in ETL development, Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Best Practices, and Exception Handling.
- Proficiency in SQL, Google Cloud Products (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Composer, Pub/Sub), and SQL Server Integration Services.
- Expertise in Informatica (IDMC/IICS) and Python coding skills.
- Experience using AI in the development lifecycle for efficiency gains.
- Business Analysis experience for data analysis and guiding analysts to translate business requirements to data mapping.
- Exceptional track record in delivering results and business outcomes.
- Minimum of 5 years working in the financial services industry.
- Minimum of 10-12 years of solid data engineering experience.
- Minimum of 3 years strategic project leadership and delivery experience in a matrixed organization.
- Strong understanding of Data Warehouse concepts (star schema, slowly changing dimensions, fact/dimension modeling) and Operational Data Exchanges/Stores.
- Solid understanding of data lifecycle, metadata management, and governance standards.
- Good understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines.
- Willingness to learn new skills and keep up with technology changes.
- Demonstrated ability to disagree, debate with data, and commit to delivery regardless of the outcome.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical presentations and documentation.
- Prior experience working with vendor resources in an onshore-offshore model and driving delivery and collaboration.
- Experience implementing data security controls and access management policies.
Skills
- ETL development
- Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- Data Quality
- Best Practices
- Exception Handling
- SQL
- Google Cloud Products
- BigQuery
- Cloud Storage
- Dataflow
- Composer
- Pub/Sub
- SQL Server Integration Services
- Informatica (IDMC/IICS)
- Python
- AI in development lifecycle
- Business Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Data Mapping
- Data Warehouse concepts
- Star schema
- Slowly changing dimensions
- Fact/dimension modeling
- Operational Data Exchanges/Stores
- Data lifecycle management
- Metadata management
- Governance standards
- Architecture Standards
- Development Standards
- Onshore-offshore model collaboration
- Data security controls
- Access management policies
- Workday
- BMC Remedy Helix
- Jira
- Rally
- Streaming solutions
- Event-driven solutions
- Confluent Kafka
- Data Visualization
- Report design
- Reporting tools
- GitHub
- Bamboo
- Liquibase
- Cloud-based technologies
- GCP
Location
- Southlake, TX
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years working in the financial services industry
- Minimum of 10-12 years of solid data engineering experience
- Minimum of 3 years strategic project leadership and delivery experience
Education Level
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or similar/equivalent area of study
Salary/Compensations
- In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
