Senior Data Platform Product Owner

Charles Schwab; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

PTO & volunteering time; sabbatical

Parental leave and family building

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Senior Data Product Owner to lead data integration initiatives for Stock Plan Services. You will coordinate with product owners, analysts, and engineers in an agile environment to modernize legacy batch integrations and scale data exchanges for clients.

The role emphasizes ownership of roadmap, prioritization of enhancements, and delivering end-to-end data integration capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical product teams and translating requirements into priorities.
• Roadmapping, backlog, deployments for data integration modernization and maintenance.
• Strong product management skills with data-driven insights.
• 5+ years in product management and 15+ months in equity plan administration operations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Detail-oriented with end-to-end delivery capability.
• Strong communication across cross-functional teams.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments as Product Owner/Manager.
• Ability to align stakeholders and prioritize PI/sprint work.
• BA/BS or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, developers, and stakeholders in an agile setting to manage SPS legacy batch applications and releases.
• Lead roadmap development and align with the data exchange platform's future architecture.
• Apply knowledge of equity plans workflows to strengthen product positioning and value.
• Own end-to-end delivery of stock plan data integration capabilities for internal and external clients.

Skills

Technical leadership

Agile/Scrum

Data integration

Stakeholder alignment

Communication skills

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

SSIS

.NET

Shell

Perl

Job description

Your opportunity

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.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate to work on site 4 days per week in one of the specified locations.

Schwab’s Workplace Services supports retirement, stock plans and designated brokerage services for corporations and their employees. Together we’re modernizing our client and internal facing capabilities and offers for corporate Stock Plan Services (SPS) clients to be industry-leading and scalable to support our significant business growth. The SPS Digital Product Management team is looking for Senior Data Product Owner with proven agile fundamentals and experience in leading digital initiatives for SPS with a focus on enhancing our data integration capabilities both internally and for our clients.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the coordination and delivery of data integration business and technology transformations, specifically to the modernization of the Stock Plan Services legacy batch integration application

What you’ll do

• Partnership– Work with our team of product owners, system analysts, developers and business stakeholders in an agile environment. You would manage the welfare of the SPS legacy batch applications of the product and release lifecycle including analyzing, defining strategy, and managing implementation of enhancements to existing and new capabilities.
• Client Focus – Lead and collaborate with SPS stakeholders to develop your team’s roadmap and align it with the future architecture data exchange integration platform current being developed.
• Strategy– Use your knowledge of equity plans administration workflows and client (internal and external) data integration needs to further strengthen Schwab’s product positioning in the Equity Compensation marketplace. Design experiments and structure evaluations of whether product solutions will be valuable, usable, feasible and viable. Bring stakeholders and industry perspectives to refine and shape your vision.
• Execution– Own and drive all aspects product manager responsibilities required to bring new and enhanced stock plan data integration capabilities to our internal and external data consumption clients, including the definition, creation, development, and implementation of the solutions that help us achieve our mission.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of 'challenging the status quo,' this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications:

• Technical Product leadership experience that overlaps with a Technical Product Manager role, including directing and coordinating technical teams across Java, SSIS, .NET, Shell, and Perl environments; translating product outcomes and business requirements into clear technical priorities; understanding dependencies and tradeoffs across legacy and modern technology stacks; partnering with engineering leads on solution design and modernization sequencing; and driving delivery across development, testing, release, and production-support activities.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain team roadmap(s), backlog(s), development queue(s), and deployments related to data integration application modernization as well as ongoing maintenance and support (MLO) of our legacy data integration application ecosystem.
• Exceptional product management skills - ability to synthesize data and stakeholder feedback into insights and actions
• 5+ years product management experience, 15+ months supporting equity plan administration and related operations
• Superior business analysis skills, multi-tasking capabilities, and ability to troubleshoot issues
• High attention to detail and the ability to see things through from concept to implementation
• Ability to provide on-time delivery of project deliverables
• Ability and desire to effectively and efficiently work in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Agile/Scrum experience required in a Product Owner/Manager role
• Superior ability to engage and align across the scrum team and all stakeholders (Business, Technology, Production Support, Architecture and QS resources) when setting priorities for a PI or a PI sprint.
• Ability to own the oversight related to DoD/completion of development and testing activities for each assigned user story or product increment.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Development experience across these technology stacks is strongly preferred, particularly hands-on experience modernizing Java-based batch jobs and services.
• Experience participating in cross functional projects, with an emphasis on the Schwab Stock Plan Services (SPS) business processes and data flows within the SPS eco-system

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonuses or incentive opportunities.

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What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 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
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance