Lead Data Platform Engineer - Hybrid

Charles Schwab; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and sabbatical

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. in Westlake/Austin, TX is seeking a Manager Data Engineer to design, build, and evolve a modern data platform. You will lead ingestion and transformation pipelines, ensure data quality, and partner across analytics, governance, and technology to enable analytics and AI initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with platform-wide thinking, improving reliability, and delivering trusted data products for enterprise decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• Advanced SQL and data modeling.
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration.
• Cloud data platforms and modern warehouse/lakehouse environments.
• Experience with governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality concepts.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and evolve the data platform to support analytics, operations, and AI initiatives.
• Lead ingestion, integration, transformation, quality, monitoring, and platform operations.
• partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into robust data solutions.
• Develop reusable data products and patterns; improve reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to standards, documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Support production operations and release activities.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Python

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform

Oracle

CI/CD

Data governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Analytics, or related field

Tools

Git

PowerShell

Job description

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. in Westlake/Austin, TX is seeking a Manager Data Engineer to design, build, and evolve a modern data platform. You will lead ingestion and transformation pipelines, ensure data quality, and partner across analytics, governance, and technology to enable analytics and AI initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with platform-wide thinking, improving reliability, and delivering trusted data products for enterprise decision-making.