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# Specialist - Software Development & Engineering

- **Company:** TD Ameritrade
- **Location:** Westlake, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,285.0 - $168,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Github, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins, Servicenow
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.schwabjobs.com/financial-consultant-academy-opportunity-branch-network

## About the Role

Job Requirements: Requires Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field and 60 months of progressive, post-bachelor's experience (60 months with bachelor's or 36 months with master's) in a related occupation.

Experience must include 36 months of experience involving the following: Release Management using deployment strategies such as Canary, Blue-Green, or Big Bang; Change Management workflows or ticket creation using tools such as BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, or JIRA; DevOps and CI/CD Tools such as Github, Harness, Bamboo, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps; Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Waterfall, or Kanban; and Application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating systems.

## Description

Duties: Act as a technical liaison between product and engineering teams, aligning release roadmaps for the advanced collateral management system with business objectives. Govern code freeze processes, enforce software quality standards, and lead technical scope reviews to ensure architectural integrity. Direct release management activities, formulate deployment tactics, and oversee high-level production issue triage to ensure successful system rollouts. Design and architect tracking systems to automate release metrics, utilizing data to optimize cross-functional engineering delivery. Develop advanced software automation tools like GitHub and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enhance developer productivity. Drive technical product alignment by educating stakeholders on system capabilities and presenting release strategies. Provide release guidance and technical mentorship to software engineering team members.