Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering (People Leader)

Charles Schwab Inc.; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab Corporation seeks a senior engineering leader to drive growth in Workplace Services Engineering. You will mentor teams, design scalable platforms, and modernize critical components, using API-first approaches and AI-enabled processes.

You'll influence architecture, ensure resilience, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver secure, scalable financial workplace solutions. This role requires strong communication and cross-functional leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• In 6+ years of leadership, managed engineering teams, including project and offshore oversight.
• Experience hiring and building high-performing teams with coaching and feedback.
• Deep knowledge of software engineering and SDLC with agile practices.
• Ability to prioritize across multiple locations and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams across programs and projects.
• Design scalable platforms and modernize legacy components.
• Drive API and system improvement initiatives for faster integration.
• Improve platform stability, performance and resilience at scale.
• Collaborate across disciplines to influence architecture and strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Strategic thinking

Communication

SDLC

Agile

Cross-functional

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Bamboo

Prometheus

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).

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 at work. We 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.

What you have

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#
• Javascript frameworks (Angular, React, etc...)
• SQL and NoSQL databases (Oracle, Postgres, and MongoDB are preferred).
• Working proficiency with SCM and DevOps 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 while leading high-impact teams, projects, or programs
• Creates opportunities for others to assume meaningful responsibilities
• Identifies and resolves challenges with a forward-looking approach
• Creates and sustains a supportive atmosphere that integrates diverse perspectives into decision-making
• Develops and implements procedures that enhance business effectiveness
• Leads the collaboration of diverse perspectives to work together as a team
• Influences business unit strategies to optimize resource allocation
• Proactively sets expectations, monitors performance, and offers constructive feedback
• Verbally delivers precise, persuasive communication for productive outcomes
• Upholds high standards of reliability, trust, and subject matter authority
• Delivers impactful messages that persuade diverse audiences
• Establishes strategic goals, measures performance, and optimizes outcomes
• Analyzes trends to create actionable strategies that align with long-term goals
• Drives continuous improvement by raising quality benchmarks and establishing new standards of excellence
• Knowledge of cloud computing platform technologies (i.e., AWS, GCP, Azure, PCF)
• Prior experience in Equity Compensation a plus

Learning Opportunities

• Deepen Product Expertise in workplace financial services and equity administration while supporting platforms used by millions of participants.
• Build Generative AI capability through practical application to engineering processes, quality, and operational outcomes.
• Expand Cloud Services Management knowledge through modernization work across enterprise platform technologies.
• Strengthen Systems Leadership by influencing architecture, operating models, resilience practices, and cross-functional strategy at scale.
• Grow leadership impact through complex transformation work, talent development, and collaboration across business and technology teams.

Skill Development Values

At Schwab, skills grow through challenging work, collaboration, coaching, knowledge sharing, and ownership. You will be empowered to shape strategy, develop engineering talent, and learn from partners across the firm while delivering technology that supports meaningful financial outcomes. We value curiosity, continuous improvement, diverse perspectives, and leaders who create opportunities for others to contribute and grow.

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