Director - AWAT Infrastructure, DevOps & Cybersecurity; PL

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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).

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The Advisor Services, Wealth & Asset Management Technology (AWAT) group within Schwab Technology Services (STS) is responsible for the applications, services, platforms and technologies required to deliver a suite of solutions for Schwab's Advisor Services (AS), Wealth & Advise Solutions business (WAS) and Schwab Asset Management (SAM) business.

Advisor Services, Wealth & Asset Management Technology Operations (AWAT Ops) is responsible for Platform health & operational excellence, cloud & infrastructure management, incident response & problem management, platform observability, instrumentation & security, change & release management and special ops programs & initiatives for all AWAT applications, services & platforms.

The Director, Software Development & Engineering, Platform Infrastructure & Engineering, will report to the Head of Advisor Services, Wealth & Asset Management Technology Operations (AWAT Ops) and will be responsible for AWAT Infrastructure Operations, Security, Threat & Vulnerability management, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CICD), Operational tools & Automation capabilities. The role will be responsible for bridging the gap between AWAT infrastructure, security, devops and automation strategy & execution, through centralized management of all related programs to achieve AWAT strategic operational objectives.

What you are good at

• Develop & lead the platform technology strategy for infrastructure, security & devops transformation and modernization, and execute the strategic roadmap in line with platform standards, engineering practices, governance processes and operational controls.
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle programs, including hardware refreshes, operating system upgrades, capacity management & scaling, data center migrations, technology currency initiatives, software maintenance, patching, vendor advisories, & security remediation activities. Lead capacity forecasting, performance analytics, and utilization planning to support current & future business demand. Lead business continuity, disaster recovery & resiliency testing and recovery exercises.
• Lead Dev Ops platform services, including shared CICD tooling, deployment platforms, engineering runtime services and developer enablement platforms. Drive continuous improvement through automation, tool rationalization & optimization and embedding AI into operational workflows to drive operational efficiencies.
• Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements, audit controls, risk management frameworks and lead the management & execution of all security remediation programs.
• Partner with Managing Directors, Directors, Sr. Managers & Architects peers across STS, particularly Infrastructure & Operations, Schwab Cybersecurity Services, Enterprise Delivery Enablement, and other STS SAvE teams, to influence broader scale infrastructure strategy & Implementation, remediation of infrastructure resiliency & application security risks, tooling, automation, and methodology consistency.
• Consistent delivery against high priority, often complex and multi-dimensional commitments. Closely partner with Managing Directors, Directors, Sr. Managers & Architects across AWAT to influence the continuous improvement of infrastructure deployment and devops practices that will streamline the QA to Production pipeline. Partner…