Sr Specialist - Software Development & Engineering

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.

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;
• CIs/CD pipelines using Bamboo and GitHub;
• Agile methodologies and Atlassian tools including JIRA and Confluence.

Pay

Starting compensation depends on related experience. Annual bonus and other eligible earnings are not included in the ranges above.

Benefits

• 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).