Lead Java Developer at Charles Schwab

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are 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.

The Offer Order (O2) team is responsible for Charles Schwab’s core client data platform that drives differentiated experiences for customers, accounts, households, and advisors through various channels (Schwab.com, rep tools, branch tools, call center, etc). This group is primarily focused on building, delivering, and supporting sophisticated systems that power segmentation, client preferences and experiences using event driven architecture, API, batch, and eligibility frameworks to establish resilient and scalable solutions. We are currently in the process of designing the next iteration of our platform to support current and future business capabilities that will delight our customers with a target of starting core development early next year. It’s an exciting time to join this team and be involved in building the next chapter of our platform that is crucial for the firm.

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

· Understanding the needs of the business, conducting research on potential options and recommend optimal solution based on context.

· Identifying gaps and mitigating risks to delivery, scalability, performance, security, compliance, operational readiness, and work to respond to them or advocate for prioritization.

· Participating in strategic planning discussions with technical, business, and stakeholders

· Designing effective solutions that are in line with the organization’s vision.

· Actively participating in product design and development sessions

· Writing efficient, easy to follow technical documentation.

· Reviewing cross-team work in planning to ensure teams understand work break down and dependencies when considering work sequencing and prioritization.

· Technical lead on cross-team strategic efforts to influence decision and alignment.

· Understanding several teams' testing strategies and uses the knowledge to educate and help teams level-up their testing. Recommending org testing strategies/solutions.

· Ensuring economic thinking is part of the delivery execution across

· Fostering a culture of engineering excellence and challenging the status quo

· Identify gaps in processes and services across environments.

· Cultivating a culture of open feedback that promotes accountability for getting better together

· Facilitating discussions within the O2 and beyond, ensuring that everyone has an opportunity to share their opinion and be heard, and that discussion outcomes tie to stated goals.

· Supporting teams on critical production issues

· Building relationships with adjacent domains and teams.

· Providing coaching, mentorship, and career development

What you have

Required:

· 10+ years of experience in actively developing large scale software using: Java, Spring framework, cloud development, and Web Services supporting high volume transactions in a highly available environment.

· 6+ years of experience working with containers and microservices in the cloud.

· 6+ years of experience in cloud deployment in a continuous integration, and continuous delivery model (CI/CD).

· 2+ years of experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), or AWS or GCP.

· 2+ years’ experience working with databases like MongoDB, Aerospike, and/or PostgreSQL.

· 2+ years Prior experience in IT Transformations and system modernization initiatives from legacy to distributed platforms, i.e., Mainframe Cobol apps/DB2 to Java apps/SQL or MongoDB

· Track record of pursuing and maintaining high quality while delivering on tight schedules

· Collaborative mindset coupled with a bias for action to effectively engage with all areas of the business including Product Management, Architects, SRE, and adjacent teams, etc.

· Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including offshore teams and manage offshore development activities

· Ability to effectively engage subject matter experts and understand technical topics

· Demonstrated ability to disagree, argue your case with data, and commit to deliver regardless of the outcome of the disagreement

· Demonstrated ability in solution discovery and crafting a design based in engineering principles

· Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the demonstrable ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

· Ability to analyze and solve problems creatively

· Track record of mentoring and coaching that results in a stronger organization

· Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related degree, OR related practical experience 

Preferred:

· Good knowledge of messaging technologies (Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or equivalent)

· Experience in Financial Services industry

· Experience in Test Driven Development, QA Automation and Quality mindset and behaviors

· Proficient in developing Visio diagrams, architectural and design documentations, functional and technical specifications, automated test process

· Willingness to learn all aspects of tech stack and document

· Ability to research and document production and test environments along with architecture and design work

· Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment

· Experience with the Atlassian tool stack (JIRA and Confluence)