Charles Schwab · 6 days ago
Sr. Java Software Developer Lead
US-AZ-Phoenix
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$155K/yr - $175K/yr
7+ years expCharles Schwab is a company focused on transforming the finance industry through innovative solutions. They are seeking a seasoned Lead Developer of Software Development Engineering to support the growth of the WAS business by implementing best practices and delivering high-quality software solutions. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders and leading a team of technologists to enhance the technology strategy for Schwab's Wealth and Investment Solutions.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Enable WME to achieve consistent, predictable, high-quality delivery by implementing best practices, tools, metrics, automation frameworks, and provide oversight in the areas of software development and testing
Serve as a strong and versatile hands-on technical leader
Deliver high-quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment
Support key stakeholders across the WAS organization focused on high-net worth and ultra-high net worth retail investors
Work with a team of talented and highly motivated technologists to make technology a strategic differentiator for Schwab’s WAS business and their clients
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
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
Qualification
Required
A university degree or equivalent experience
7+ years of experience in software development roles with focus on software development and data products – includes 4+ years of with engineering lead experience
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, GitHub, 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
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
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
Preferred
Responsible for ensuring the Change Implementation Management policies are adhered to for all changes deployed to Production
Consistently 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
Benefits
Bonus or incentive opportunities
Company
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