Specialist - Software Development & Engineering

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role. 

​​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.​

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

This role is a multi-purposed focused on application development, task management and business project/process support. This position has the responsibility of ensuring development tasks, standards and company policies are followed within project efforts and deliver assigned development work timely.

Key Responsibilities 

•Provides development coding standards and policies.
•Ensures development efforts follow provided requirements by business teams.
•Attends team daily stand-up meetings for work in-progress.
•Works with enterprise architecture teams to adopt tools for application development, integration and rollout needs.
•Attends daily Scrum, Planning and Integration meetings in preparation for future priorities.
•Collaborate with architecture, database development and database administration staff to establish and adhere to industry and enterprise best practices for application development, integration and optimization.
•Stays up to date with software tools, trends, technologies and frameworks both industry-wide and within Schwab.
•Write technical specifications based on technical requirements and functional specifications. 
•Assist with select quality assurance tasks, including test data preparation, defect root cause analysis and production support 
•Work within multiple software development life cycle (SDLC) models including Waterfall and Agile. 
•Adhere to software development compliance policies and procedures. 
•Know, understand, and follow employee guidelines, employment policies, and department or company procedures.

What you have

Required Qualifications

​​•Have 2+ Years of experience in application development and support using JAVA/J2EE technologies Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Security OAuth2, Spring Security, Spring REST, Spring Data
•2+ years Hands on experience in managing aggregation, placement and execution process of Mutual Fund
•Have 2+ Years of experience with Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Integration and Spring AMQP or similar technologies
•Have 2+ Years of experience in application development leveragingNoSQLdatabase (Mongo)
•2+ Years Hands on experience as a Java Developer with strong knowledge of devOps using Jenkins/Bamboo, Maven, Git)
•Strong communication, analytical and team skills
•Scrum agile methodology knowledge and experience
•Strong knowledge of design patterns and understanding of software architecture including micro services and Cloud Native Architecture
•Write and review technical specifications based on technical requirements and functional specifications.  Collaborate with architecture and development staff to achieve approval and consensus of solution design presented in response to technical specifications written by analysts and other developers. 
•Contribute to development and publication of release documentation and the development of code to facilitate the migration and conversion of data. 
•Assist with select quality assurance tasks, including test data preparation, defect root cause analysis and production support 
•Other duties and responsibilities as assigned including but not limited to:  Attend team meetings, phone conferences, and training as needed.
•Know, understand, and follow employee guidelines, employment policies, and department or companyprocedures. 

▪ Independently applies application maintenance practices and collaborates to ensure continuous support
▪ Tracks data pipelines and stores to support analytics and machine learning
▪ Handles incident responses independently while working with cross-functional teams to lessen impact
▪ Executes rigorous testing to ensure systems and products meet quality standards
▪ Effectively prioritizes requirements using roadmaps, epics, and backlogs
▪ Independently implements security controls to secure the IT environment
▪ Independently executes software design techniques that meet project requirements
▪ Applies standards and processes to create and verify software components
▪ Deploys software updates using containerization and orchestration tools
▪ Utilizes predictive or adaptive lifecycle models to develop system design components​

Preferred Qualifiactions

​​▪ Evaluates moderately complex problems by analyzing data and spotting trends
▪ Keeps others informed about workstream developments and updates
▪ Applies business intelligence and industry insights to support decision making
▪ Enables others to make decisions within their scope
▪ Recognizes industry trends to foresee opportunities and challenges
▪ Contributes ideas for new approaches or technologies within a defined scope
▪ Influences peers and collaborates across teams to improve workflow efficiency
▪ Verbally conveys complex concepts and engages peers effectively
▪ Acts with integrity, responsibly handles information, and communicates with accuracy
▪ Crafts impactful messages tailored to audience needs, persuading desired actions
▪ Sets challenging goals, monitors progress, and applies problem-solving techniques
▪ Evaluates market dynamics and proposes innovative, efficient solutions
▪ Delivers high-quality work with minimal revisions by adhering to standards
▪ Adjusts written tone and style effectively for diverse readers​