Data Governance Tools - Sr Specialist - Business Analysis

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. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location. Our Opportunity: The Schwab organization is looking for a highly motivated Business System Analyst who will be responsible for release process and development projects working closely with Lead Analyst, development team members, architects and system admins. They will be accountable for documentation of user stories, software development process requirements, testing, and will develop in-depth knowledge of Schwab’s data inventory, and Schwab’s governance policies and standards. The Business Analyst will report to the Senior Manager for Data Governance Tools within Schwab Data. What you’ll do: Run agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and story writing. Active story writing: Collaborating with the business to define requirements and ensuring developers meet those specifications. Maintain documentation and controls: Ensure that tools and programs within our team are adequately documented and controlled. Release management: You’ll be responsible for gathering comprehensive information to document releases, ensuring adherence to our change management system standards. Software development lifecycle adherence: Assist with procedures and provided necessary documentation throughout the software development lifecycle, i.e. testing, process procedures, gathering sign offs from the business. Monitoring, reporting and follow-up: Track work outputs and ensuring timely follow-ups with business, other analysts, and developers. Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) application demonstrations for business stakeholders Utilize and support data management tools including CDGC, Data Inventory Program, and platform administration activities. Support CDGC connection management, including setup, configuration, validation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of production database connections across standard and non-standard database technologies. Investigate scan, metadata harvest, data discovery, and connection failures by reviewing execution status, logs, database accessibility, host and listener changes, permissions, and connectivity requirements. Coordinate with database, application, and infrastructure teams to remediate connection issues, validate connection updates, and support scan compliance objectives. Assist with automation support and process improvement by leveraging automation processes, identifying automation opportunities, and documenting operational impacts when automation is unavailable. What you have To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of 'challenging the status quo,' this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have. Required skills: Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field. Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and handle multiple projects. Ability to focus on meeting tight deadlines and deliverables on target deadlines. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, Teams, and Outlook. Ability to document recurring operational issues, resolution steps, and process improvements to strengthen supportability, scan compliance, and operational efficiency. Preferred Skills: Experience working with data management capabilities such as technical metadata, business metadata, data quality, data profiling, data lineage, and enterprise governance processes. Experience working in a regulatory, risk, and compliance environment and supporting associated projects. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with working knowledge of database connectivity concepts, including hostnames, listeners, connection strings, certificates, access permissions, and validation of connection changes. Experience configuring or supporting production database connections for SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, cloud database platforms, or other specialty database technologies. Experience maintaining MongoDB connection configurations, including multi-host connection strings, certificate tracking, renewal coordination, and server inventory management. Experience supporting scan compliance, governance reporting, and operational process improvement by tracking failure trends, operational impacts, remediation activities, and automation opportunities In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr The Charles Schwab Corporation