Salary: USD $58,200 - $119,000 / 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.
Schwab's Stock Plan Services team focuses on supporting equity compensation for our B2B clients and we have multiple applications that support this effort. Our mission is to launch a consolidated platform of microsites to combine these segregated applications into a holistic user experience. While executing this goal we strive to maintain excellent customer support and deliver on sustaining engineering objectives. We are fueled by a diverse team of talented team-members who continuously raise the bar on delivering best-in-class products and services to people all over the world.
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As a Specialist, IT Program Management, you will provide overall project management support for technology infrastructure projects in the Stock Plan Services, Shared Services organization. You will coordinate complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects (Server, Network, Database) from inception to completion, ensuring they are completed on time and within scope. You will collaborate with various teams, including IT, Security, Operations and Product to deliver high-quality infrastructure solutions that align with business objectives.
Essential Functions:
- Coordinate multiple IT infrastructure projects (e.g., data center migrations, network upgrades) using project management best practices and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.).
- Proactively identify potential risks and issues, develop mitigation strategies, and lead efforts to resolve project-related issues in a timely manner.
- Provide guidance and conflict resolution to ensure project success and maintain comprehensive project documentation and reporting, including project schedules, meeting notes, confluence pages and JIRA stories.
- Ensure all infrastructure projects comply with relevant security policies, regulatory requirements, and IT standards.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by reviewing and refining infrastructure processes and project management methodologies.
- Ensure project goals are achieved by their assigned date and maintain a sense of urgency to help the team stay focused on task completion.
What you have
Required qualifications
- At least 2 years of project management experience handling large, sophisticated, and cross-functional projects with emphasis on IT infrastructure systems including Server, Network and Database technologies.
- 2+ years of experience with Atlassian tool stack(e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
Preferred qualifications
- Strong organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to excel in a complex environment.
- Proven success executing tasks in ambiguous and uncertain situations.
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