Senior Java Developer at Charles Schwab

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 a Senior Software Engineer/technical lead who is passionate about technology and the experiences it can create to join our Client Servicing technologies development team. This is an opportunity to work on innovative and scalable technology solutions in a fast-paced and agile environment. You’ll work with technical and business partners to design and maintain optimal programming and environment solutions. Job activities will involve design, developing solutions and supporting the tools and processes to gather detailed user requirements, architecting/developing a solution, and driving strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and client stakeholders. 

What you’ll do:

• You will be the leading the technical team and a liaison with the other development teams at Schwab, partnering closely with them to ensure on-time delivery and quality code is implemented.  Your work will impact the success of the projects and the firm by ensuring a successful delivery of an essential risk management system.
• Develop architectural diagrams/documents, develop software codes and automated test scripts.
• Write efficient, easy to follow technical documentation.
• Act as liaison between technical and non-technical counterparts. 
• Design and develop effective solutions that are in line with the organization's vision.
• Actively participate in product design and development session
• Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies.
• Working closely with our Business System Analysts to help them identify, define, and document business/technical requirements.
• High collaboration with team and partners discussing options and enhancement opportunities.
• Ensure timely delivery of technical project & release deliverables.
• Mentoring others, growing our team thru knowledge sharing, and continuously expanding Best Practices.
• The candidate must be able to balance multiple priorities while navigating daily opportunities.
• The ideal candidate will have a passion for problem solving, can quickly learn new concepts and must be able to interact with all levels of technical and business.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 8-10 years of experience with the following: Java, Spring framework, cloud development, and Web Services (REST, SOAP) supporting high volume transactions in a Highly Available environment
• 5+ years’ experience designing and developing solutions to complex problems designs for enterprise-wide projects.
• Understanding of CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous Delivery) and why these practices are beneficial.
• Knowledge of developing Visio diagrams, architectural and design documentations, functional and technical specifications, automated test process
• Strong working knowledge of software development methodologies, including some extensive experience with Agile development processes.
• Experience with the Atlassian set of tools for Agile project/code management (GitHub, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence)
• Willingness and ability to learn all aspects of test data management and associated tools.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including offshore teams and manage offshore development activities.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Experience and working knowledge of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• Experience and working knowledge of SQL Server, MongoDB, RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Experience in driving process improvements, enhanced feature adoption, scalability, and automation.