Senior Manager, IT Program Management

Job Description

Your Opportunity

The Data Governance Senior Manager position will drive the daily data governance activities for Schwab’s Operational Services Trading platforms in support of internal and external channels. These platforms include Schwab’s balances, positions, transactions, trading technology (TAPSS), security reference data (SRDG), and market data platforms. This is a specialized individual contributor role that reports to the Data Governance Team Manager.

What you are good at

The Data Governance Senior Manager will contribute to the end-to-end data quality, accuracy, consistency and completeness across our platforms. This position includes active engagement with leaders and subject matter experts to ensure the implementation and compliance of data governance is within firm data governance standards. Key responsibilities include:

• Support the data governance efforts to build a robust data inventory complete with associated metadata and data lineage, capture changes to the use and consumption of data, and establish monitoring of data quality
• Collaborate with the business and technical subject matter experts to implement data controls in alignment with the firm’s data risk management framework
• Create and compile business metadata in compliance with firm data governance standards for new and existing data elements; working with key business personnel to establish appropriate change management processes and identify data quality metrics
• Facilitate and participate in the local data governance forum meetings, ensuring content is available in the governance applications
• Support the growth of a new data governance structure for Schwab’s trading data platforms by leveraging best practices for capturing metadata and educating personnel on the governance applications, processes and procedures
• Support the onboarding of numerous downstream applications into TAPSS and SRDG governance for the trading data platforms
• Build effective working relationships with business and technical partners to support DG efforts, coordinate and collaborate with business and technical partners to establish relevant metadata and data lineage, and leverage their support to integrate our data governance efforts

What you have

• Bachelor's degree required
• Knowledge of reference data, trading data, and portfolio accounting data, preferred
• 2+ years of experience in data governance and/or data management, preferred
• 2+ years of experience in the financial services industry, preferred
• Security licenses including Series 7, preferred
• Strong analytic skills and the ability to effectively transform financial concepts into robust business metadata that can be easily understood by others
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively with multiple business partners across all levels of the organization

You demonstrate these behaviors:

• Building Collaborative Relationships:The ability to develop, maintain, and strengthen partnerships with others inside or outside of the organization who can provide information, assistance and support
• Influencing Others:The ability to gain others’ support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions
• Initiative:Identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked to or required by the situation
• Diagnostic Information Gathering:Identifying the information needed to clarify a situation, seeking that information from appropriate sources, and using skillful questioning to draw out the information when others are reluctant to disclose it
• Personal Accountability:Takes responsibility for the results and future direction of the organization
• Thoroughness:Ensuring that one’s own and other’s work and information are complete and accurate; careful preparation for meetings and presentations; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled
• Managing Change: Demonstrating support for innovation and for organizational changes needed to improve the organization’s effectiveness; supporting, initiating, sponsoring, and implementing organizational change; helping others to successfully manage organizational change

Why work for us?

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. Explore further.

Schwab is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to any status that is protected by law. Please click here to see the policy.

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on advancing women, racial and ethnic minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at [email protected] or call 800-275-1281.

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.