<p>Your Opportunity</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Role Summary</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>What You Will Do (Responsibilities)</p> <p>Platform Infrastructure & Environment Engineering</p> <ul> <li>Support creation and configuration of GCP infrastructure including Cloud Storage, Composer, Cloud Run, and IAM roles. </li><li>Assist in provisioning Snowflake resources (databases, schemas, compute warehouses, RBAC roles, service accounts) aligned with tenant isolation and platform governance models. </li><li>Follow platform patterns for networking and secure connectivity, including Private Service Connect and controlled access paths between Snowflake and GCP. </li></ul> <p>DevOps, CI/CD & Automation</p> <ul> <li>Contribute to Git repository setup, branching strategies, and automated CI/CD pipelines for pipelines, Snowflake DDL, configuration, and platform components. </li><li>Help build automation templates for tenant-specific resources, notifications, dashboards, and deployment patterns. </li></ul> <p>Data Platform Capabilities</p> <ul> <li>Support ingestion workflows for file-based ingestion, vendor Snowflake secure data shares, and internal source ingestion to SAMDA raw/curated data zones. </li><li>Assist in implementing transformations using Snowflake SQL, Python, and Composer as part of the PLT (Push-Load-Transform) orchestration model. </li><li>Support standardized data quality checks baked into platform pipelines and tenant workflows. </li></ul> <p>Observability, Monitoring & Platform Operations</p> <ul> <li>Configure monitoring and alerting using GCP Operations, Snowflake usage monitoring, and platform dashboards for pipeline health and SLAs. </li><li>Collaborate with production support on incident triage, pipeline monitoring, and environment troubleshooting. </li></ul> <p>Platform Enablement</p> <ul> <li>Help onboard new tenant applications, including infra creation, repository setup, Snowflake footprint provisioning, RBAC setup, and pipeline patterns. </li><li>Learn and apply platform governance covering data segmentation, tenancy isolation, information barriers, and security guardrails. </li></ul> <p>What you have</p> <p>Required Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. </li><li>1-2 years of experience or relevant project work with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure). </li><li>Foundational experience with Python, SQL, Git, and CI/CD concepts. </li><li>Exposure to cloud-native services (GCS, Cloud Run, Composer, Pub/Sub) or Snowflake. </li><li>Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills; ability to learn quickly and collaborate in a team environment. </li></ul> <p>Preferred Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>Exposure to Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift). </li><li>Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager. </li><li>Understanding of data governance, secure data handling, or enterprise RBAC models. </li><li>Familiarity with observability tools (Stackdriver/Cloud Operations, Prometheus, etc.). </li></ul>