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. 

The Sales and Service Technology division supports client facing systems, sales support systems, and service systems.  Salesforce.com is the foundation of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM)systemsused by the Sales Technology team. Schwab has 14 Salesforce orgs, including the CRM Retail org, which supports sales for our Retail Branches.  The CRM Retail org has automated integrations with many other Schwab systems.

As a member of the CRM Retail Sales Technology team, you will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment.  As a Salesforce Developer you willbe responsible fordesign, development, and delivery of Salesforce artifacts.  We'relooking for team members that are eager to learn and implementnew technologiesand provide outstanding CRM solutions.

• Analyzing business and systems requirements and providing technical solutions to meet user requirements

• Designing and developing solutions on CRM Salesforce platform integrating with backend systems and working closely with our development, QA, productteamsand Architects

• Ensuringtimelydelivery of project deliverables

• Collaborating with business partners on issues

• Partnering with application and data developers on designs, models and best in class implementation

• Interacting with experts from across Schwab in different support organizations and business groups

• Being a member of Agileteam(s)that focuses on delivering what the client needs

• Providing Tier 2 support for production issues, including fixes across platforms and on-call responsibilities working with production support team to ensure 24x7 availability of production systems

What you have

• Strong foundational understanding of application development concepts and technologies

• Demonstratable problem solving and troubleshooting skills, coupled with a desire to take on responsibilities; solutions oriented

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex system issues in business terminology

• Ability to effectively handle multiple, competing, high-priority projects with varying deadlines

• Experience interfacing with business partners at various levels

• Demonstrated ability to understand the business functions that the team supports

• Ability to work independently as a member of an Agile scrum team

• Track recordof being detailed oriented; a self-starter having deliverables with minimal defects

• Mustbe able to quickly grasp complex concepts and learnnew technologies

• Experience supporting production operations in a high-availability environment

• Experience interfacing with multiple technology domain partners, including offshore vendor teams and internal groups

• Must be able to coach and mentor junior members on the team

As a developer you will have the following skills and experience:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,Engineeringor a related field

• Salesforce development skills gained through hands on experience and understanding of Salesforce platform features

• Some experience in Salesforce design and development

• A moderate understanding of Salesforce platform features

• Knowledge of Salesforce Configuration, Workflow, Triggers, Visualforce, Apexcodingand batch

• Knowledge in integration of Salesforce with backend systems synchronous and asynchronous

• Salesforce Lightning experience a plus

• Salesforce Administrator and Developer certifications a plus

• Experience in CI/CD using Atlassian tools like BitBucket & bamboo highly desired

• Experience in Java/J2EE technology stack and distributed computing highly desired

• Experience with Jira for issue and project tracking desired

• Prior Agile development experience highly desired

• Prior exposure to the financial industry will set you apart