Director, Designated Brokerage Services Technology (PL)

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

Sabbatical after 5 years of service

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Schwab Designated Brokerage Services seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead DBS Technology, driving strategy, delivery, modernization, and reliability of a critical platform. You will partner with product, business, risk, compliance, trading, order management, and data teams to align goals and execution.

The role demands strategic leadership with a hands-on approach, strong client- and control-focused mindset, and a commitment to excellence in security, data integrity, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years in leadership and 5+ years leading people.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and real-time architectures.
• Experience leading software development managers, architects, platform engineers, and technical leads.
• Proven experience building scalable, highly available, low-latency enterprise applications, preferably within financial services, brokerage, trading, order management, or securities operations.
• Experience delivering regulated, control-critical systems requiring strong security, data integrity, and auditability.
• Experience with high-volume integrations, APIs, batch data feeds, and external partners.
• Strong leadership, communication, influencing, operational reliability, governance, and incident-management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery, reliability, and support of the Designated Broker Platform, including Schwab Trade Rules, ADDLink, compliance data feeds, and employee monitoring capabilities.
• Develop and execute a multi-year technology strategy balancing client commitments, regulatory changes, new capabilities, scalability, and platform health.
• Ensure real-time trade restriction enforcement is accurate, highly available, low-latency, auditable, and supported by strong controls.
• Scale the platform for increased trade volumes, client growth, accounts, and new business capabilities while improving operational efficiency.
• Deliver technology solutions supporting new products, asset classes, account structures, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner across enterprise trading, order management, account, reference data, Compliance, Risk, and Audit teams to manage dependencies, data integrity, governance, and controls.
• Drive resilient production support, incident management, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
• Improve corporate client and employee experiences across onboarding, account linking, data delivery, and self-service capabilities.
• Lead talent, performance, and organizational development across engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and production support teams.
• Manage critical vendor, third-party compliance platform, and internal stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Leadership of engineering teams

Cloud-native architectures

Distributed systems

Real-time, low-latency systems

Regulated security & auditability

Vendor & stakeholder management

Strategic technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Your opportunity

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 through innovative and reliable technology products and services. Workplace Services Engineering supports Schwab’s workplace businesses, delivering retirement, equity, designated brokerage, and workplace financial solutions that help millions of participants build stronger financial futures.

Schwab Designated Brokerage Services (DBS) helps corporate clients meet regulatory and code-of-ethics obligations by monitoring and controlling employee personal trading while providing employees access to Schwab’s brokerage experience. The DBS platform includes real-time trade restriction capabilities, Schwab Trade Rules®, ADDLink for account linking and delinking, compliance data feeds, and employee monitoring capabilities. The platform also supports trade restrictions across Stock Plan Services, Retirement Business Services, Personal Choice Retirement Accounts, and other Schwab offerings.

The Director of Software Engineering, DBS Technology will lead the strategy, delivery, modernization, and reliability of this mission-critical platform. This leader will partner across product, business, risk, compliance, trading, order management, account, and data technology teams while leading a multi-team engineering organization. The ideal candidate combines strategic leadership with a hands‑on approach and strong client- and control-focused mindset.

Key Outcomes:

• Own end-to-end delivery, reliability, and support of the Designated Broker Platform, including Schwab Trade Rules®, ADDLink, compliance data feeds, and employee monitoring capabilities.
• Develop and execute a multi-year technology strategy balancing client commitments, regulatory changes, new capabilities, scalability, and platform health.
• Ensure real-time trade restriction enforcement is accurate, highly available, low-latency, auditable, and supported by strong controls.
• Scale the platform for increased trade volumes, client growth, accounts, and new business capabilities while improving operational efficiency.
• Deliver technology solutions supporting new products, asset classes, account structures, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner across enterprise trading, order management, account, reference data, Compliance, Risk, and Audit teams to manage dependencies, data integrity, governance, and controls.
• Drive resilient production support, incident management, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
• Improve corporate client and employee experiences across onboarding, account linking, data delivery, and self-service capabilities.
• Lead talent, performance, and organizational development across engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and production support teams.
• Manage critical vendor, third-party compliance platform, and internal stakeholder relationships.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in leadership and 5+ years leading people leaders.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and event-driven, real-time architectures.
• Experience leading software development managers, architects, platform engineers, and technical leads.
• Proven experience building scalable, highly available, low-latency enterprise applications, preferably within financial services, brokerage, trading, order management, or securities operations.
• Experience delivering regulated, control-critical systems requiring strong security, data integrity, and auditability.
• Experience with high-volume integrations, APIs, batch data feeds, and external partners.
• Strong leadership, communication, influencing, operational reliability, governance, and incident-management capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with designated brokerage, employee trade monitoring, compliance surveillance, or pre-trade restriction platforms.
• Knowledge of SEC and FINRA requirements related to employee trading and compliance controls.
• Familiarity with order management, trade lifecycle, account and securities reference data, workplace financial services, stock plan, or retirement platforms.
• Experience leveraging automation and AI to improve engineering productivity, operations, or client workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives, build partnerships, solve complex problems, and lead through change.
• Proven success attracting, developing, coaching, and retaining high-performing engineering teams while fostering ownership, accountability, innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance