Charles Schwab’s purpose is to help everyone become financially fit. Through advocacy and innovation, Schwab has worked to make investing more affordable, more accessible and more understandable for all. For more than three decades, The Charles Schwab Corporation has been an advocate for individual investors and the independent advisors who serve them.
At Schwab, we respect the unique differences of our employees, our clients and the communities we serve – striving to create a consistent and rewarding employee experience. If you share our enthusiasm for helping others, building trusted relationships, possess high ethical standards, and have a desire to learn and grow, there’s a place for you at Schwab!
Organization Objective/Purpose:
Advisor Services Technology has an opening for a Grade 56, Developer. This person will be part of a development team responsible for building mission critical, highly available systems for the Schwab Advisor Services business. Clients are browser based ASPX, PowerBuilder or .Net. Middleware services use WebLogic/Java, Messaging, Web Services, API and file transfer communication to core services.
Brief Description of Role:
Candidate should have experience deploying systems across an enterprise. Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential. This person would frequently interface with clients and users. Established team-player mentality required. Provide 3rd level production support as needed. This person would need to be able to troubleshoot mission critical production system problems under time bound situations. Demonstrated ability to design and develop on a single moderate-to-high complexity project, or on concurrent low complexity projects.
Technical/Functional Qualifications:
Required Skills:
- BS degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.
- A minimum of 3 years experience in software development.
- Recent experience building multi-tier Java applications including GUI development using Java Swing, Xtreme Frameworks, and Toplink.
- Conceptual understanding of all J2EE technologies.
- Working knowledge of XML, IBM WSMQ, JMS, SQL, Design expertise modeling business, data access and service objects.
- Working knowledge of UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Working knowledge of ASPX, WebForm, Atlas.
- Experience with IIS, WebLogic, and WebSphere.
- Experience with full development life cycle (requirement definition, design, development, QA, and rollout). Additional experience with PowerBuilder, .Net, Web Services, Apache Struts and JSP’s, and Oracle 9i and/or 10g would be beneficial.
Preferred:
- Knowledge of financial services industry