Charles Schwab · 1 month ago
Lead Java Developer - Data Engineering
US-TX-Austin
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $168K/yr
7+ years expCharles Schwab is a financial services company that empowers employees to make an impact on their careers. The Lead Java Developer will support the Wealth Management Engineering team by implementing best practices in software development and testing, delivering high-quality solutions, and leading a team through the software development lifecycle.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Lead team members and work with partners to deliver Integration Fabric platform across the full software development lifecycle - designing, developing, testing, and support
Design, implement, influence, and refine architecture designs and technologies to develop various components of an Integration Fabric
Implement and coach on software development best practices as the go-to development partner for the scrum team members
Coach team members on software development best practices and data integration patterns
Assist leaders with talent acquisition by identifying resource needs, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new engineers and analysts
Define and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical database models by working with business stakeholders and identifying optimal database specifications
Ensures that database design and system capabilities meet validated user requirements
Work with application development teams designing, developing, and enhancing database schemas, creating database views, helping with query optimization, and figuring out ways to increase application performance
Enhance and recommend solutions / processes for downstream impact analysis associated with data and/or model changes
Work with various IT departments within Schwab to perform preventive and corrective maintenance and incident management measures
Ensure database integrity, availability, and restorability by working with enterprise operational excellence teams
Evaluates the integration of new tools or technologies based on the capabilities of the existing infrastructure
Recommend solutions and help with functional and performance testing needs (mock data, test environments, data refresh processes)
Responsible for coordination of planning the installation of operating systems, databases, applications, development upgrades, and new releases
Follow and develop database standards, guidelines, and best practices
Establishes standards, controls, and procedures to ensure data integrity and security
Perform capacity planning
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field
7+ years of experience in software development roles with focus on software development and data products – includes 4+ years of with engineering lead experience
3 years or more experience with Postgres database management. The candidate must additionally have experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and/or Mongo DB
Must have worked as alongside a business vertical to establish nomenclature, data catalogs, provenance, standards, semantics and usage of data
Deep knowledge and experience with query development and optimization (SQL, PL/SQL, and No SQL)
Experience in performance-tuning database applications is a MUST
Strong knowledge and experience with data integration design patterns
Strong experience working on medium or large-scale data integration projects with OLAP/OLTP systems
Experience in Domain Driven Design, Microservices and Database design
Experience in implementing software development engineering best practices as well as DevOps, CI/CD, Scrum, and Kanban
Hands-on experience coding in Java, building REST based APIs, using messaging and streaming technologies, and development tools such as Bamboo, Bitbucket, and Jira
Hands-on experience utilizing Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Cloud Data Flow and other technologies to build data integration pipelines
Experience writing automated unit, integration, and acceptance tests for data interfaces & data pipelines is a must
Preferred
Exposure to various flavors of databases Postgress, Oracle, Mongo, SQL Server, MySQL
Exposure to data visualizations tools such as Tableau
Exposure to ETL tools such as Informatica Intelligent Cloud Solutions
Proactively detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues affecting production applications
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
Constantly 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
Improve self-reliance and reduce dependency on the availability of development or external team resources for the initial troubleshooting and resolution of problems
Experience with scheduling tools like Control-M is preferred
Experience with other developments tools, such as GitHub, Harness, Launch Darkly, and mabl is preferred
Experience with Data Catalog tools like Collibra, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Informatica Data Quality is a plus
Experience with AWS, GCP, or other Cloud technologies is a plus
Wealth Management and/or Financial Services industry experience is a plus
Ability to quickly learn & become proficient with new technologies
Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, communication, and negotiation
Company
Charles Schwab
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