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Senior Manager Data Engineering (PL) - Cloud Data Platform

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Charles Schwab

Senior Manager Data Engineering (PL) - Cloud Data Platform

Austin, TX

Pay range: USD $103,500.00 - $170,000.00 / Year

Your opportunity

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 are looking for an energetic and accomplished individual for the Senior Manager Data Engineering position with a strong technology and solution delivery acumen who will be responsible for driving the overall design, development, and delivery of business intelligence solutions. This position will work closely with vendor partners, developers, architects, project managers, business analysts, and QA areas across departments to deliver in line with our strategy, capabilities, and processes.

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Role Overview

  • Lead individuals on the team, chart their career path and finding work to keep all team members engaged and productive while working towards their career goals.
  • Partnering with business to understand strategic and financial objectives, recommend solutions and work with architects to define the supporting architecture.
  • Planning, estimation, scheduling, prioritization, and coordination of technical activities related to system development.
  • Defining standard, guidelines and best practices for design, development, and testing.
  • Managing ETL design, development, data management and data analysis activities of team. Making sure that deliverables fulfill both functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Identify and manage dependencies and downstream impacts of the projects to minimize adverse effects on other applications.
  • Assessing new tools and software, managing POCs and offering recommendations to improve our enterprise landscape.
  • Working closely with Informatica, Google and other product vendors to resolve product issues impacting delivery of requested features. Wherever resolution taking time, work with team to put workarounds, and keep deliveries on track.
  • Ensuring system alignment to Architecture policies and best practices; ensure that process methodologies are followed in system development.
  • Engaging with both onshore and offshore teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality data engineering solutions.
  • Providing mentorship and hands-on coding support to the team.
  • Identifying opportunities for system reuse and system simplification.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelors' degree in Engineering/Technology
  • 12+ years of professional experience in development, support, and maintenance of ETL and database applications
  • 7+ years of experience managing small to medium-sized projects.
  • 3+ years of people leadership, supporting highly technical individuals.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS)
  • 3+years of experience with Control M
  • 3+years of experience with GCP technologies (GCS, BigQuery, Dataproc)
  • Excellent understanding of data warehouse concepts, different architecture patterns on cloud to support batch, near real time and real time data processing/ reporting.
  • Strong SQL knowledge, shell scripting and deep understanding of relational database concepts
  • Strong understanding of Agile development best practices (Kanban and Scrums) and experience using Jira or other agile work tracking system.
  • Expertise in Python, PERL and other scripting languages
  • Familiarity with SCM and DevOps tool suites and CI/CD best practices; examples include Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.), Bamboo, Jenkins, Concourse etc
  • Critical-thinking and strong problem-solving skills with ability to analyze and understand data.
  • Strong oral, written, and interpersonal skills for interacting and throughout all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in the Financial Services industry is a plus.
  • Prior experience of working directly with Informatica and Google on resolving product issues.
  • Ability to interpret key trends and metrics, and leverage them for actionable decisions.

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

What's in it for you

At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

  • 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 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

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, USA
Job ID: CharlesSchwab-2025-107501
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program