Senior Data Platform Product Owner

Charles Schwab Corporation; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Product Owner to steer data integration initiatives for Stock Plan Services. You will coordinate cross-functional teams in an agile form, align product roadmaps with evolving architecture, and drive the delivery of modern data integration capabilities for internal and external clients.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product owners, analysts, and engineers to define strategy, prioritize features, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery

Qualifications

• Technical Product leadership experience coordinating technical teams and translating business requirements into clear technical priorities.
• Experience creating and maintaining team roadmaps, backlogs, development queues, and deployments for data integration modernization.
• Excellent product management skills with ability to synthesize data and stakeholder feedback into actionable insights.
• 5+ years of product management experience plus 15+ months supporting equity plan administration and related operations.
• Strong business analysis, multitasking, and issue troubleshooting abilities.
• Detail-oriented with ability to deliver on time in a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and Agile/Scrum experience in a Product Owner/Manager role.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product owners, analysts, developers and stakeholders in an agile setting to manage SPS legacy batch applications and release lifecycle.
• Lead with SPS stakeholders to develop roadmaps aligned with future data exchange platform architecture.
• Apply knowledge of equity plan workflows and client data integration needs to refine product vision and strategic decisions.
• Own delivery of new and enhanced stock plan data integration capabilities for internal and external clients, including solution definition and implementation.

Skills

Product management

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Communication

Data integration

Requirements analysis

Education

BA/BS degree

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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