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The Schwab Capacity Planning Team, within the Application Architecture team is looking for a seasoned and driven engineer passionate about ensuring capacity & availability of critical applications & systems to meet client demands. Working across business and technology domains, this role will drive application capacity strategy and direction across a wide variety of activities such as public cloud adoption, acquisitions & integrations, application modernization, and digital enablement. The role requires close collaboration with architects and engineers across the Schwab Technology Services (STS) organization.
This role reports up to the Office of the CTO, chartered to establish technology governance, standards, practices, and strategy for the entire firm, enabling thousands of technologists to better serve the millions of Schwab clients and trillions of dollars in client assets.
Specific goals will include:
- Assess current capacity baseline for the most critical business functions
- Create modeling capabilities to help predict capacity issues based on past trends, client expectations, and new environments
- Partner with Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud (IO&C) organization within STS to translate business and application changes to infrastructure requirements
- Translate the impact of capacity issues into business performance measures
Technical Design: Transforming detailed architectural views as solutions for critical business functions- Translating Business to Technology: Mapping critical end-to-end business functions across applications and infrastructure and performing current vs. proposed transactional volume overlays for critical programs and projects
- Modeling & Analytics: Using data-driven approaches to perform scenario planning, create capacity models, and identify variance between planned vs. actual capacity utilization
- Risk Management: Assisting in key capacity and risk metrics reporting
- Forensics: Performing root cause analysis and business impact analysis for incidents related to capacity and scalability as well as performing application health assessments for application areas considered at-risk for capacity and scalability
- Soft Skills: Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to navigate across organizational boundaries of architecture, engineering, and operations
7+ years of experience in application hosting or application development, architecture, and design, with positions of increasing scope and complexity in highly regulated industries (e.g., finance, insurance, health care, government)- 5+ years of software development experience and participation in application modernization efforts
- Experience in using the Python data science stack (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Jupyter, etc.) or Full Java development stack
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
- Ability to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others, inspire others and to lead decisions that provide clear positive results to the company
- Strong design analysis and problem-solving abilities, working in close collaboration with subject matter experts from varying technology and business disciplines.
- Enterprise-wide awareness of the business domains in relation to core business processes, capabilities, and enabling technology platforms
- Familiarity with and active engagement in application development, DevOps, integration and application architecture, data center and systems architecture and design and business capability modelling
- The ability to apply architectural principles and to govern based on established principles
- Architecture & Design: Curating detailed architectural views for critical business functions is a plus
- Understanding and practice experience of industry standard capacity planning and capacity management processes (working knowledge of COBIT Managed Capacity BAI04 is a plus)
- Experience in financial, investment management and securities markets preferred
What will help set you apart
- BS in Computer Science or in Statistical field
- Experience with large volume of data and analytics
- Strong technical background and experience in implementing systems in production
Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.
Benefits: A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive and flexible package designed to help you make the most of your life at work and at home—today and in the future.
TD Ameritrade, a subsidiary of Charles Schwab, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At TD Ameritrade we believe People Matter. We value diversity and believe that it goes beyond all protected classes, thoughts, ideas, and perspectives.
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