Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Data Platform

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're 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.

We are looking for an energetic and accomplished individual for the Senior Data Engineer position with a strong technology and solution delivery acumen who will be responsible for driving the overall design, development, and delivery of business intelligence solutions. This position will work closely with vendor partners, developers, architects, project management, business analysts, and QA areas across departments to deliver in line with our strategy, capabilities, and processes.

Role Overview

• Partnering with business to understand strategic and business objectives, recommend solutions and work with architects to define the supporting architecture.
• Assessing new tools and software, performing POCs and offering recommendations to improve our enterprise landscape.
• Working closely with Informatica, Google and other product vendors to resolve product issues impacting delivery of requested features. Wherever resolution taking time, put workarounds, and keep deliveries on track.
• Involvement in project planning and resourcing
• Defining standard, guidelines and best practices for design, development, and testing.
• Performing ETL design, development, data management and data analysis.
• Creating data model, performance tuning, load plan etc. Making sure that deliverables fulfill both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Planning, estimation, scheduling, prioritization, and coordination of technical activities related to system development.
• Ensuring system alignment to Architecture policies and best practices; ensure that process methodologies are followed in system development.
• Engaging with both onshore and offshore teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality data engineering solutions.
• Providing mentorship and hands-on coding support to the team.
• Identifying opportunities for system reuse and system simplification.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or Information Technology
• 10+ years of professional experience in development, support, and maintenance of ETL and database applications
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Informatica Powercenter or Talend
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS)
• 3+years of experience with Control M
• 3+years of experience with Google Cloud Platform technologies (GCS, BigQuery, Dataproc)
• Excellent understanding of data warehouse concepts, different architecture patterns on cloud to support batch, near real time and real time data processing/ reporting.
• Strong understanding of Agile development best practices and experience using Jira or other agile work tracking system.
• Strong SQL knowledge, shell scripting and deep understanding of relational database concepts
• Expertise in Python, PERL and other scripting languages
• Familiarity with SCM and DevOps tool suites and CI/CD best practices; examples include Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.), Bamboo, Jenkins, Concourse etc
• Critical-thinking and strong problem-solving skills with ability to analyze and understand data.
• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal skills for interacting and throughout all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the Financial Services industry is a plus.
• Prior experience of working directly with Informatica and Google on resolving product issues.
• Ability to interpret key trends and metrics and leverage them for actionable decisions.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.