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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 Wealth & Asset Management Engineering (WAME) Technology is part of the Schwab Technology Services (STS) organization supporting Schwab's Research, Investment management, and Trading platforms to provide products, advice and services to institutional and retail clients manage investments. This team is essentially the front-office for Schwab Asset Management that continues to harness the state-of-the-art technologies for differentiating Schwab portfolio research and asset management. The team has won several industry awards such as the “Best IT Team of the Year” and the “Asset Manager Digital Tool of the Year”. Team is high performing and plays a key role in developing the technical strategy, designing systems, and delivering to high quality standards.
Job Responsibility:
Serving as subject matter expert for business partners and technology, working through the financial application enhancements, issues or questions related to Portfolio Optimization and performance attribution
Conducting requirements-gathering meetings with users, developers, system design architects, system integrators and vendors
Partnering with Agile team members to generate requirement stories, UAT test scripts, release notes, and other project artifacts
Coordinating user acceptance testing between vendor, business and WAM technology team
Ensuring that system solutions are delivered successfully to the business stakeholders
Providing deep data support and maintenance of vendor applications and in-house systems, as needed
Gaining in-depth business knowledge to successfully represent the business community in arriving at technical solutions that support business strategies
Adapting to changing priorities and managing multiple tasks
Requirements:
Extensive experience in the financial Asset management, particularly equity trading, portfolio management, operations, and accounting
Subject matter expertise and experience with optimizers – preferably Axioma and Gurobi
Subject matter expertise and experience with IBOR Systems – preferably Vestmark
Ability to manage and communicate multiple and changing priorities and deadlines to the business in a matrixed organization, comfortable supporting multiple line of stakeholders in trading, portfolio management, compliance, and risk
Demonstrated ability to analyze and provide technology recommendations to the business
Experience in systems development life cycle including the ability to define and document specifications, work with developers to design/analyze alternative technical solutions, test completed code and complete a smooth implementation with the business partners
Confidence in presenting both strategic and tactical vision to the business team for both big-picture planning and day-to-day management of project goal
Desire to work with both in-house developed systems and third-party vendor packages
Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, organizational and negotiation skills
Education: BA/BS in finance, computer science or related field. Finance CFA Foundation or CFA certification would also be accepted
8+ years of relevant experience working as an IT business systems analyst or individuals with business analyst experience looking to transition to technology
Nice to have:
Preferred Proficiencies: Experience in component-based development (integrating vendor products with in-house developed code)
strong data analysis skills
working experience in an agile development environment
What we offer:
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