Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering; People Leader

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).

Workplace Services Engineering (WSE) is an organization within Schwab Technology Services that is embarking on a major transformation. We support Workplace Services, and we're shaping the future of how people experience financial wellbeing  partner with leading employers to deliver innovative retirement, equity, and workplace financial solutions that help millions of participants build stronger financial futures. This is a fast growing, high impact business where scale meets purpose-where your work directly influences how people plan, save, invest, and succeed.

As a key growth engine for the firm, we're investing more than ever to expand our capabilities, modernize platforms, and elevate the experiences we deliver to employers and their employees. Our teams work at the intersection of technology, service, and financial expertise-supporting workplace clients with solutions that scale, adapt, and deliver meaningful outcomes. Here, your ideas help shape what's next for workplace financial services.

If you're energized by solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and making a real difference in the workplace services industry, you'll find your place here.

In this role, you will:

• Help build a critical part of Schwab’s growth in the Workplace market.
• Design and build scalable platforms supporting critical workplace applications, like Equity Administration for millions of participants.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including API and foundational system improvements that enable faster, safer integration and partnerships
• Improve platform stability, performance, and resilience to reduce risk and deliver seamless experiences at scale
• Modernize legacy components to address high risk remediation and compliance while maintaining industry leading standards
• Leverage AI to innovate processes and outcomes for maximum efficiency and quality.
• Be part of a collaborative team where you aren't an "order taker" but an influencer.

Required Qualifications

Leadership and Management:

• 6+ years of leading and/or managing engineering teams, includes project, resource, and offshore management responsibilities.
• Ability to identify, recruit, hire, and build high-performing teams
• Ability to coach, mentor, and provide direct, timely performance feedback
• Good judgment and the ability to handle stressful situations.
• Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends, etc.
• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment
• Deep understanding of SDLC, agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures
• Ability to analyze, propose and implement timely, cost effective, quality solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility
• Strong influencing, negotiation, and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify stakeholders, assess their needs and manage their expectations through effective communication
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (includes ability to compose and deliver technical presentations or other forms of documentation to various levels of technical and non-technical management)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

Technical:

• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience including one or more of the following:
• REST-based web services
• Server side applications with either Java or C#
• Java script frameworks (Angular, React, etc...)
• SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (Oracle, Postgres, and MongoDB are preferred).
• Working proficiency with SCM and Dev Ops tool suites; examples include Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, Harness etc.
• Participate in engineering practices such as code reviews, service discovery, and environment strategy.
• Knowledge of logging aggregation tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or similar tools
• Solid understanding of resiliency and disaster recovery solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Drives data-based decisions and optimizes performance through strategic insights
• Delivers timely updates and effective communication with others involved in a project or effort
• Leverages deep industry knowledge to drive success…