Senior Engineering Manager – Platform Engineering; PL

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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(s).

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

The Senior Engineering Manager – Platform Engineering leads the design, delivery, and operation of shared technology platforms that power large-scale, client-facing digital applications across web, mobile, and API channels in a financial services environment. This role is responsible for enabling application teams to deliver features rapidly and safely by providing resilient, scalable, and secure platform capabilities that abstract infrastructure complexity and enforce enterprise standards by design.

You will lead and grow a team of platform engineers responsible for building enterprise-grade distributed systems, shared services, and developer enablement tooling. The role requires deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed applications on the .NET platform, along with the ability to guide architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and ensure platforms are designed for performance, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

As a senior leader, you will own the platform roadmap, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term architectural evolution. You will partner closely with application engineering, product, security, and operations teams to support cloud adoption, modernization initiatives, and operational excellence. The platform is expected to scale with client growth while meeting strict availability, security, and governance requirements.

The role also emphasizes Cloud and AI enablement, including the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering and operational capabilities to improve developer productivity, automation, and system insight. You will ensure these capabilities are introduced with appropriate guardrails, observability, and risk controls suitable for a regulated enterprise.

As a people leader, you will build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. You will coach and develop engineers and senior technical leaders, empower teams to make sound decisions, and ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of platforms that directly impact client experience and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

1) People Leadership & Performance Management

• Lead and develop a team of platform engineers, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development.
• Set clear expectations and goals, track progress, provide continuous feedback, and address performance issues promptly.
• Build a culture of ownership where teams can deliver predictably and with high quality, minimizing “manager-directed intervention.”

2) Platform Strategy, Vision, and Roadmap

• Define and communicate a platform vision that improves developer productivity and accelerates time-to-market for client-facing features through reusable services, paved roads, and golden paths.
• Translate strategic business needs into a prioritized platform roadmap, balancing feature velocity with reliability, resilience, and compliance expectations.
• Anticipate consequences and plan for contingencies (capacity, resiliency, vendor/platform changes, regulatory shifts).

3) Technical Leadership:
Architecture & Engineering Rigor

• Provide technical direction and oversight for system design and architecture, ensuring compatibility with modern cloud architectures and scalable patterns.
• Establish repeatable, scalable engineering processes (e.g., migration playbooks, deployment patterns, testing strategies) that improve consistency and quality.
• Drive engineering excellence: architecture reviews, operational readiness reviews, incident postmortems, and…