Director, Data Engineering Senior (PL)

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.

Duties: Partner with business to understand strategic and financial objectives, recommend solutions, and work with the team to define the right architecture to support operational and analytical business reporting needs. Manage the technical delivery of medium to large, complex projects on time, on budget, and with the desired product quality. Plan, mitigate risk, resolve issues, and conduct technical feasibility analyses for highly complex system projects. Manage day-to-day team operations, including assigning tasks, providing guidance and support, and evaluating performance. Source, hire, and onboard the right talent for key open roles. Upskill and mentor existing employees to support career growth opportunities. Accountable to business and technology management for end-to-end application scoping, planning, development, and delivery that meets and exceeds quality standards. Ensure system alignment with Enterprise Architecture policies and best practices; ensure that process methodologies are followed in system development. Contribute to defining standards and guidelines for design and development. Accountable for developing work orders and cost estimates to and from suppliers. Coordinate delivery of work from all System Integrators for various projects, including risk, quality, change management, and schedule. Size and review projects with product vendors. Review and approve vendor invoices, expenditures, and timesheets. Monitor and manage achievement of SLAs with suppliers. Identify and manage dependencies and downstream impacts of projects to minimize adverse effects on other projects and/or programs. Identify opportunities for system reuse and system simplification.Position supervises other employees.

Starting compensation for this location depends on related experience. Annual bonus opportunity and other eligible earnings are not included in the range(s) above. We offer a competitive benefits package, see below for details.

Job Requirements: Requires Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related field and 120 months of progressive, post-Bachelor’s experience in a related occupation. 

Experience must include 60 months of experience involving the following: Program management skills including team management, planning, risk mitigation, issue resolution, schedule and financial management, quality of deliverables and governance of large projects complex in nature; Data architecture and governance, data modeling using ERWIN, solution architecture, OLAP and OLTP concepts and techniques, data security, encryption/decryption using various tools and technologies, Dev Ops using Jenkin, Bitbucket and GITHUB; Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), Informatica Power Center, Python based ETL framework, Alteryx and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS); Business Objects (BO), Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx and Smartview; and Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Mongo DB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. 

We offer competitive pay and benefits. Starting compensation depends on related experience. Annual bonus and other eligible earnings are not included in the ranges above. Benefits include: 401(k) w/ company match; employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, volunteering, 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions; paid parental leave and family building benefits; tuition reimbursement; health, dental, and vision insurance; hybrid/remote work schedule available for eligible positions (subject to Schwab’s internal approach to workplace flexibility).