Manager, Software Development & Engineering

Your Opportunity

Schwab has been a leader in financial services for nearly four decades, working to make investing more affordable, accessible, and understandable to all. Driven by our purpose to champion every client's goal with passion and integrity, we're committed to providing an environment that respects and appreciates the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our goal, as seen through clients' eyes, is that Schwab continuously improves on being a premier financial service provider through best-in-class service, technology, products, people, and advice.

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. Our mission is to empower and develop our people to provide technology solutions and thought leadership that delivers innovative and cost optimized Move Money capabilities. We are seeking a dynamic Mainframe developer with passion for technology and excellence to be part of the Move Money team.

• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to define strategy and scope of software requirements (decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks)
• Deliver new concepts and features, working alongside development peers in an agile environment.
• Serve as an informal leader: leading code reviews and mentoring junior team members.
• Partner with scrum master and product owner to provide development sizing & cost analysis estimates.
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve the highest quality in software delivery.
• Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
• Identify technology risks early and establish mitigation plans.

What you have

Required:

• Must have Schwab Technology Domain experience gained as a Schwab Contractor for at least 18 months
• Bachelors' degree in Computer Engineering OR related degree
• Advanced experience working in COBOL, DB2, CICS
• Develop and install various types of source code into MVS system through code migration tools Changeman
• Automate job scheduling, handle dependencies, and enhance flexibility in Mainframe Jobs using scheduling tools Control-M
• Design, code and test application solutions and new project enhancements in JCL
• Must demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to work with a geographically dispersed team.
• Must demonstrate a knack to figuring out solutions to complex problems.

Preferred:

• Prior experience re-writing COBOL/Mainframe applications for C# modernization will be a plus.
• Good experience developing/managing REST and SOAP-based Web Service API(s)
• Experience with distributed multi-tier applications, WMI and SQL DB.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Strong technical skills:
  • Analyze technical and functional application modules and provide estimate on design solutions.
  • Develop and implement DB2 interfaces, create basic and complex queries and query performance tuning in DB2.
  • Support application systems and maintain on-line screens in CICS environment.
  • Troubleshooting, clustering, shared queue, and publish-subscribe solutions in Message Queues.
• Strong people skills:
  • Demonstrated ability and interest in coaching and mentoring team members.
  • Ability to participate in collaborative application and platform architecture design sessions.
  • Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Effective relationship builder: ability to partner cross-functionality, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization.