Sr 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.

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.

The Advisor Services Technology team is responsible for managing the entirety of our digital products designed specifically for to our Institutional and Independent Advisor clients. AS Money Movement provides asset movement functions to Schwab Financial Advisors to facilitate money movements into their sub-accounts. The Money Movement team is comprised of multiple scrum teams all working collaboratively to provide the best experience to advisor firms. Looking for a strong technical candidate that can collaborate with AST team members in designing and developing technical solutions that meet business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.

​​•Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable front end and back-end code.
•Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
•Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
•Collaborate with the team to design, develop, unit test, and support new features.
•Proactively identify product/system enhancements which may improve tool appeal, process flow, and overall functionality and performance.
•Champion/ensure adherence to coding, compliance, & security standards (including documenting functionality/recovery solutions).​

​​▪ Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues using best practices to support live applications
▪ Prioritizes compliance, security, and scalability of data systems
▪ Executes strategies to restore services promptly and address disruptions
▪ Addresses QA challenges by applying best practices in testing and compliance
▪ Validates requirements and constraints to support effective development and operations
▪ Monitors and addresses security policy violations using best practices
▪ Resolves software design challenges using predictive and adaptive methods
▪ Applies best practices to build, test, and validate software components while resolving issues
▪ Consolidates software changes into secure, stable releases using best practices
▪ Ensures systems align with cloud architectures using modern design methodologies​

​​▪ Conducts in-depth analysis, evaluates factors, and influences decisions with insights
▪ Ensures stakeholders has the necessary information for informed decisions
▪ Analyzes market dynamics, provides guidance to peers, and aligns work with business goals
▪ Trusts colleagues to manage outcomes
▪ Anticipates consequences of situations and acts to prepare for contingencies in assigned tasks
▪ Identifies opportunities for process improvements and implements creative solutions
▪ Influences team quality and effectiveness with decisions
▪ Verbally presents ideas confidently, ensuring mutual understanding
▪ Builds credibility with expertise, transparency, and confidentiality
▪ Delivers powerful messages with persuasive language to drive viewpoint adoption
▪ Chooses effective methods to reach ambitious goals and measure outcomes
▪ Applies specialized expertise to support initiatives that optimize performance
▪ Produces work that meets or exceeds quality expectations
▪ Writes concise, well-structured, and engaging business documents​

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

• ​​Analytical Thinking​-​Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach​

• ​​Building Collaborative Relationships​-​Ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others who can provide information, assistance and support​

• ​​Developing Others​-​Willingness to delegate responsibility and to work with others and coach them to develop their capabilities​

• ​​Software Development​–​Implementing standards, processes, and methods to create, test, and verify software components, ensuring reliability and resolving operational problems and bugs​

• ​​System Design and Architecture​–​Implementing concepts for system design, ensuring compatibility with cloud architectures, and utilizing adaptive approaches for lifecycle models and methodologies​

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