Manager, 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.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

Messaging is a key component of I&O (Infrastructure & Operations) organization. The Enterprise Messaging team is responsible for the design, implementation, and support of infrastructure of a highly available Message Queue transport across mainframe and distributed environments. This support is crucial to applications effectively leveraging business data in an enterprise environment.

You will be working with a team of seasoned messaging experts on enterprise-class platforms that support critical business workloads in a large-scale, dynamic technology environment. We are looking for a senior-specialist infrastructure developer for our enterprise-messaging platforms. Primary skillset is IBM MQ with a DevOps focus.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing technical support for IBM MQ on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Appliances, Mainframe, and OpenShift)
• Acting as a primary representative for Enterprise Messaging platforms for cross-organization projects, independently elaborating on requirements and executing on project needs  
• 24x7 oncall weeks
• Market Open monitoring
• Maintaining and improving Ansible playbooks
• Implementing and certifying messaging software and related program products
• Interfacing with other technology support organizations
• Performing problem determination for issues with messaging integrations
• Staying up-to-date with best practices for the implementation and operation of messaging integrations
• Acting as a key resource for business-integration efforts among multiple Schwab domains and third parties
• Delivering innovative solutions to complex problems and business cases
• Performing key role in a major messaging-infrastructure consolidation effort
• Executing on security efforts in the messaging area

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications:

• A BA/BS degree and 10+ years of work or project experience working in a large IBM MQ environment including 3+ years in the financial industry
• Experience with RCA and remediation of complex messaging problems
• Strong problem determination and resolution skills as well as problem and change management disciplines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with z/OS mainframe environment
• Experience working through source control with git on team projects
• Development background in .NET, Java, or COBOL
• In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Eagerness to learn and support new technologies

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