Sr. Specialist, Software Development & Engineerig

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.

Schwab is transforming people lives by changing the way the world invests, and this is a unique opportunity to help

shape the technical direction of our modernization and Cloud initiatives. We are recruiting to hire an experienced

Software Release and Deployment Engineer with a strong track record of coordinating Production Deployments and

improving release processes. The Portfolio Management Technology (PMT) group champions innovative and scalable

technology solutions to deliver a superior client communication experience, through multiple delivery channels.

ACMS(PMT) is used by Margin business operations team to monitor and assess client and firm risk regarding client

account activities such as trading on margin. Ongoing ACMS Modernization initiatives and projects including Balcalclib

to Balpos4 migration, Pega to Appian Migration, Futures margin, Real time posting projects require dedicated Level 56

Senior Specialist Release Manager due to its scale, complexity, and strategic importance. ACMS consists of more than

20 interdependent components spanning monitoring platforms, Pega, and Appian technologies, all of which demand

coordinated, high quality release execution to maintain production stability and regulatory confidence. The Release

Manager role is critical to ensure end to end ownership of release planning, change governance, and production

readiness. In this position, you will manage and mature our release and deployment processes. Your responsibilities

will include ensuring our release governance is applied, communicating release status to external stakeholders,

coordinating with Product Management on internal and external communication, and improving our overall

development and deployment pipeline.

• Planning – Coordination across multiple organizations, adhering to release schedule and business alignment.

Establishing a release cadence for EMOST.

• Risk Assessment – Code freeze processes, scope, quality and review sessions.

• Executing – Release coordination, release tactics and issue management.

• Measuring – Establish, mature and automate release metrics.

• Process Improvement/Automation – Tools improvement, process automation and innovation.

• Education – Constant education for stakeholders and engineers.

• Mentoring – Mentor and coach team members

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

• Own end to end release planning, execution, and closure in accordance with the Release Management

Standard and SOP

• Coordinate with Product Owners, Application Teams, Infrastructure, and Change Management to define

release scope, strategy, and schedule

• Prepare, validate, and manage Change Requests (CRQs), ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely

approvals

• Facilitate and support CAB reviews, release readiness checkpoints, and release night execution

• Experience with tools such as Remedy,JIRAGrGrd and Confluence for Release Management activities,

such as: metrics gathering, managing a release train across multiple departments

• Experience and working knowledge of implementing Blue-Green deployments to reduce downtime and risk

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Exposure with automation efforts of several aspects of software development; for example: automate

build process upon code check-in, automate deployment, and configuring artifacts repository (ie. experience

setting up a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using tools like Github,Jenkins or

Bamboo).

• Experience and working knowledge of PCF – Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

• Experience working with source code repositories (i.e. GIT, Bitbucket)

• Project Management experience using Scrum or Kanban

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