Associate Data Engineer

About the position

At Schwab, the Wealth & Asset Management Engineering (WAM) organization enables efficient business processes that use technology to scale and provide operating leverage for Schwab Asset Management, Financial Research, and Wealth & Advice Solutions. Our teams use the firm's technology platforms, capabilities, and expertise to provide a seamless client experience within a risk-controlled environment. We are seeking an Associate- Data Engineer for our Data Engineering group within the WAM Engineering organization. As an Associate - Data Engineer, you will have a strong passion to learn and implement technology solutions to solve real world business problems. You will enthusiastically seek action and be driven to ask questions and find creative solutions to challenging problems. As a Schwabbie, you listen to others with an open mind, foster diverse inputs, and respectfully convey your thoughts and opinions in pursuit of our collective goals. You will be working with a team of talented technologists and SMEs who bring a lot of energy, focus and fresh ideas that support our mission to provide value by seeing the world "Through Clients' Eyes."

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast-paced environment and contribute to multiple projects simultaneously.
• Analyze data and break down tasks into smaller components for systematic analysis.
• Produce highly usable and scalable software solutions using advanced development technologies and best practices.
• Solve problems in a dynamic customer-focused team environment using the newest technologies and techniques.
• Regularly improve technical and professional skills, learning emerging technologies.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of projects.

Requirements

• A university degree from a well-respected academic institution; advanced degrees in Information management, Computer Science, Business Administration and/or other professional certifications are a plus.
• 2+ years of experience in database development, RESTful web services, ETL/data processors, event-driven messaging on data centric platforms.
• 2+ years of experience developing software in a Scrum environment using toolsets like Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, and Confluence.
• 1-2 years of Schwab technology domain experience as a current or recent contractor or employee.
• Proficient with agile development process encouraging Pair programming, build backlog, story writing, collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility.
• Experience supporting the implementation of effective data engineering practices, such as creating, securing, and monitoring data pipelines and data stores.
• Experience supporting the implementation of effective quality assurance testing approaches, such as rigorous testing and compliance verification.
• Experience writing code to automate file movement operations over multiple transmission protocols (e.g., SMB, FTP, SFTP, Snowflake Sharing, etc.).
• Experience with SQL, ETL, and other code-based data transformation and delivery technologies.
• Experience in messaging and services-based software, preferably in cloud platform using RabbitMQ, Kafka or the equivalent.
• Familiarity with Informatica Developer Tool set or Data Validation Option (DVO) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Eagle investment systems platform.
• Knowledge and experience with complex XML and XSD data structures including parsers, XPath, and XQuery.
• Experience and strong knowledge in one or more types of database management systems like SQL Server, MongoDB and Redis.

Benefits

• A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow.