Director, Software Development & Engineering Senior (PL) - Broker Dealer Services Engineering

Director, Enterprise-Wide Broker-Dealer Platform Transformation

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(s).

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 are seeking a seasoned and strategic Director to lead enterprise-wide Broker-Dealer platform transformation across multiple domains, driving end-to-end re-platforming of core capabilities and shared services.

This high-impact role requires a blend of broker-dealer domain expertise, technical acumen, and change management leadership. The ideal candidate will re-engineer legacy systems, implement modernized broker-dealer capabilities, and ensure compliance with SEC/FINRA regulations. This role is accountable for cross-domain transformation outcomes and platform evolution, not individual domain delivery ownership. It carries explicit accountability for retiring legacy mainframe and tightly coupled systems and reducing overall platform complexity and risk.

As a member of the Broker Dealer Services Engineering leadership team, this role will define and operationalize an AI-first engineering model, embedding generative and agentic AI across the full software lifecycle to measurably transform how platforms are built, modernized, supported, and operated across our strategic broker dealer platform. This role requires an individual adept at navigating regulatory and organizational challenges inherent in a large financial institution, while promoting innovation, operational stability, resiliency, and efficiency.

We seek a transformation leader who combines strategic clarity, execution discipline, and the ability to drive change at scale. A proven track record of establishing AI-first teams and consistently delivering high-quality technology products and services in fast-paced, growth-focused settings is crucial for success in this position.

Key Responsibilities

• AI-Driven Engineering Transformation:
  Lead the transformation of an established engineering organization from legacy, manual development practices to a GenAI-first, agentic SDLC. Treat AI as a core production capability, not a side experiment—used across design, development, testing, modernization, documentation, and operations.
• Technology & Architecture Leadership:
  Develop, lead, and execute a multi-year, enterprise-wide transformation strategy spanning multiple broker-dealer domains, aligning architecture, data, and platforms into unified target state architecture.
• Transformation Execution:
  Migrate legacy broker-dealer systems to modern architecture while executing structured legacy decommissioning plans, including system retirement, data migration, and cost/complexity reduction.
• Legacy Retirement Ownership:
  Define and execute a clear strategy for decommissioning legacy systems, including reverse engineering, domain decomposition, data migration, and measurable reduction of technical debt and operational risk.
• Production Support & Operational Resiliency:
  Own production support outcomes for critical broker-dealer platforms, ensuring high availability, incident readiness, rapid issue resolution, effective root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement across monitoring, alerting, runbooks, release readiness, and operational controls.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Liaise with senior leadership and functional heads to align system capabilities with business goals, managing expectations and priorities across the organization.
• Vendor Strategy & Management:
  Evaluate, select, and manage relationships with key IT services vendors and third-party product vendors.
• Team Leadership:
  Lead cross-functional teams of IT professionals across multiple countries, fostering a high-performance culture aligned with the new technical operating model.
• Execution Focus:
  Demonstrated ability to operationalize strategy and deliver complex, multi-year programs on time and within budget.
• Talent Management:
  Passionate and proven ability to identify, mentor, and develop…