Charles Schwab · 13 hours ago
Data Platform Engineer
Austin, TX, US
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$100K/yr - $110K/yr
1+ years expCharles Schwab is a leading asset manager supporting mutual funds, ETFs, and managed account products. The Data Platform Engineer role involves contributing to the build-out, automation, and operation of the Schwab Asset Management Data platform, focusing on cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and data pipeline enablement.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Support creation and configuration of GCP infrastructure including Cloud Storage, Composer, Cloud Run, and IAM roles
Assist in provisioning Snowflake resources (databases, schemas, compute warehouses, RBAC roles, service accounts) aligned with tenant isolation and platform governance models
Follow platform patterns for networking and secure connectivity, including Private Service Connect and controlled access paths between Snowflake and GCP
Contribute to Git repository setup, branching strategies, and automated CI/CD pipelines for pipelines, Snowflake DDL, configuration, and platform components
Help build automation templates for tenant-specific resources, notifications, dashboards, and deployment patterns
Support ingestion workflows for file-based ingestion, vendor Snowflake secure data shares, and internal source ingestion to SAMDA raw/curated data zones
Assist in implementing transformations using Snowflake SQL, Python, and Composer as part of the PLT (Push-Load-Transform) orchestration model
Support standardized data quality checks baked into platform pipelines and tenant workflows
Configure monitoring and alerting using GCP Operations, Snowflake usage monitoring, and platform dashboards for pipeline health and SLAs
Collaborate with production support on incident triage, pipeline monitoring, and environment troubleshooting
Help onboard new tenant applications, including infra creation, repository setup, Snowflake footprint provisioning, RBAC setup, and pipeline patterns
Learn and apply platform governance covering data segmentation, tenancy isolation, information barriers, and security guardrails
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
1–2 years of experience or relevant project work with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Foundational experience with Python, SQL, Git, and CI/CD concepts
Exposure to cloud‑native services (GCS, Cloud Run, Composer, Pub/Sub) or Snowflake
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills; ability to learn quickly and collaborate in a team environment
Preferred
Exposure to Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift)
Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager
Understanding of data governance, secure data handling, or enterprise RBAC models
Familiarity with observability tools (Stackdriver/Cloud Operations, Prometheus, etc.)
Company
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