Data Platform Engineer

Pay range: USD $100,000.00 - $110,000.00 / Year

Your opportunity

Schwab Asset Management (SAM) is a leading asset manager supporting mutual funds, ETFs, and managed account products governed under stringent regulatory and compliance requirements. SAM operates in a multi-cloud, multi-custodian, multi-vendor ecosystem, relying on a diverse set of external platforms such as Vestmark, Aladdin, Eagle, and others to serve its investment, operational, and regulatory functions.

This role sits directly within SAM Data Platform Engineering, the team responsible for designing, building, operating, and enhancing the shared platform capabilities underpinning SAM Data platform. As a junior platform engineer, you will help expand and operate the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD tooling, orchestration layers, and Snowflake resources that support all SAMDA tenants.

Role Summary

The SAM Data Platform Engineering team builds and operates the Schwab Asset Management Data platform - a unified, multi-tenant, cloud-native data platform that supports regulatory, operational, and analytical workloads across SAM. The platform leverages GCP services and Snowflake to deliver scalable data ingestion, transformation, governance, and consumption capabilities.

As a Data Platform Engineer (Level 55), you will contribute to the build-out, automation, and operation of the SAMDA platform. This junior role is ideal for early-career engineers who want to work across cloud infrastructure, DevOps tooling, Snowflake platform configuration, and data-pipeline enablement while learning modern cloud-native data engineering patterns.

What You Will Do (Responsibilities)

Platform Infrastructure & Environment Engineering

• Support creation and configuration of GCP infrastructure including Cloud Storage, Composer, Cloud Run, and IAM roles.
• Assist in provisioning Snowflake resources (databases, schemas, compute warehouses, RBAC roles, service accounts) aligned with tenant isolation and platform governance models.
• Follow platform patterns for networking and secure connectivity, including Private Service Connect and controlled access paths between Snowflake and GCP.

DevOps, CI/CD & Automation

• Contribute to Git repository setup, branching strategies, and automated CI/CD pipelines for pipelines, Snowflake DDL, configuration, and platform components.
• Help build automation templates for tenant-specific resources, notifications, dashboards, and deployment patterns.

Data Platform Capabilities

• Support ingestion workflows for file-based ingestion, vendor Snowflake secure data shares, and internal source ingestion to SAMDA raw/curated data zones.
• Assist in implementing transformations using Snowflake SQL, Python, and Composer as part of the PLT (Push-Load-Transform) orchestration model.
• Support standardized data quality checks baked into platform pipelines and tenant workflows.

Observability, Monitoring & Platform Operations

• Configure monitoring and alerting using GCP Operations, Snowflake usage monitoring, and platform dashboards for pipeline health and SLAs.
• Collaborate with production support on incident triage, pipeline monitoring, and environment troubleshooting.

Platform Enablement

• Help onboard new tenant applications, including infra creation, repository setup, Snowflake footprint provisioning, RBAC setup, and pipeline patterns.
• Learn and apply platform governance covering data segmentation, tenancy isolation, information barriers, and security guardrails.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1-2 years of experience or relevant project work with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Foundational experience with Python, SQL, Git, and CI/CD concepts.
• Exposure to cloud-native services (GCS, Cloud Run, Composer, Pub/Sub) or Snowflake.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills; ability to learn quickly and collaborate in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift).
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Understanding of data governance, secure data handling, or enterprise RBAC models.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Stackdriver/Cloud Operations, Prometheus, etc.).

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

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, Southlake, TX

Job ID: CharlesSchwab-2026-118759

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-05T19:22:21