Senior Team Manager, Software Development & Engineering - Hybrid

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are 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.

Schwab is recruiting a driven, results-oriented software technical leader who shares our passion for technology, innovation, people, and excellence. Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests. We are in the midst of re-architecting and rebuilding our core enterprise software platform to support our rapidly growing and evolving business. The technical engineering manager will be a hands-on lead engineer with people leadership experience that excels in a dynamic, fast-moving, and agile environment and is passionate about developing high quality, high performance, and scalable software and teams. The candidate will work aside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the application health and ensure the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases.

This position will be part of the Bank Technology team at Schwab and focus on driving client-centricity, reducing time to market & increasing efficiency. The model is insights-driven and focuses on rapid iterations to drive innovation and transformation. Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under ambiguity and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more integrated client-centric experiences, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.

In this role you will:

• Provide technical and people leadership to drive fast paced product development.
• Drive Agile based product development supporting organization priorities and innovation.
• Hands-on development and mentoring as necessary for all members of the team to ensure team and project success.
• Drive products and team performance, collaborates with all to achieve results, and thinks strategically.
• Work closely with development, product owner and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
• Lead team in execution of application support and automation for deployments.
• Interface with product owner and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, Development, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget.
• Identify technology risks and dependencies early to establish mitigation plans.
• Create and maintains artifacts for production support and deployment processes.
• Meet periodically with onshore and offshore developers and application support to review and improve processes.
• Utilize automated software tools and frameworks for deployments and on-going maintenance activities.
• Support integration and modernization efforts.

What you have

Required

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar/equivalent area of study
• Minimum of 12 years of solid application and automation experience.
• Minimum of 5 years team leadership experience
• 5 years of exceptional experience and demonstrate proficiency in cloud-based technologies (Pivotal Cloud Foundry or AWS).
• 5 years of experience in leading a data innovation and data technology function in the context of data as the product. Also including experience with Web, APIs, RPA, AI and DB engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years working in Banking/Payments area.

Preferred

• Experience with Lending/Mortgage origination and servicing platforms
• Good understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines
• Experience providing guidance, direction, and feedback to other technical staff in order to meet agreed upon objectives.
• Ability to analyze, propose and implement timely, cost effective, quality solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical presentations or other forms of documentation to various level of technical and non-technical management.
• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment