Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

$180,000 - $210,000/Yr

The Charles Schwab Corporation - Southlake, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Southlake, TX

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

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. The Senior Software Development Engineer Manager will manage platform support for key Schwab systems. This individual will engage primarily with direct and indirect reports and business partners, including application developers, technical directors, enterprise architects, SRE, QA, Project Managers, program management, and business partners. This individual must have strong organizational, people leadership capabilities and experience with onshore/offshore staffing models. Candidates should have a passion for understanding problems, running experiments and learning. Specifically in this role, we are looking for someone who can understand the demand on the teams, how to manage the demand, subsequent delivery and collaborate with customers and partners on improvements. In this role, you will collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to define strategy and scope of software requirements, decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks. You will deliver new concepts and features, working alongside development peers in an agile environment. As an informal leader, you will lead code reviews and mentor junior team members. You will partner with the scrum master and product owner to provide development sizing and cost analysis estimates. Utilizing automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development will be essential to achieve the highest quality in software delivery. You will support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems and identify technology risks early, establishing mitigation plans. Your responsibilities will include leading the development team to deliver capabilities from inception to production, leading daily design activities, promoting Agile practices, and coordinating with key collaborators to meet project deadlines and budget. You will estimate capability costs and collaborate with Technology and Product Leadership for efficient task prioritization and sequencing. Partnering with Schwab domain and enterprise architects to build scalable solutions will be crucial, as will influencing external vendor partners to meet Schwab standards and ensure platform health. You will ensure quality through automated testing, effective alerting, and proactive monitoring of solutions, driving development and release process improvements through best practices and standards. Proactively identifying risks, establishing mitigation plans, and maintaining documentation and code quality standards will be part of your daily tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage platform support for key Schwab systems.
• Engage with direct and indirect reports and business partners including application developers, technical directors, enterprise architects, SRE, QA, Project Managers, and program management.
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to define strategy and scope of software requirements.
• Deliver new concepts and features in an agile environment.
• Lead code reviews and mentor junior team members.
• Partner with scrum master and product owner to provide development sizing and cost analysis estimates.
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks to achieve high quality in software delivery.
• Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
• Identify technology risks early and establish mitigation plans.
• Lead the development team to deliver capabilities from inception to production.
• Promote Agile practices and coordinate with key collaborators to meet project deadlines and budget.
• Estimate capability costs and collaborate with Technology and Product Leadership for task prioritization.
• Partner with Schwab domain and enterprise architects to build scalable solutions.
• Influence external vendor partners to meet Schwab standards and ensure platform health.
• Ensure quality through automated testing, effective alerting, and proactive monitoring of solutions.
• Drive development and release process improvements through best practices and standards.
• Proactively identify risks, establish mitigation plans, and maintain documentation and code quality standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in actively developing large scale distributed and mainframe software.
• 5+ years of software development management experience leading teams of ~10 people comprised of full-time, onshore, and offshore in a large organization.
• 4+ years of experience working with containers and microservices in the cloud.
• 2+ years of experience with relational database, NoSQL databases and messaging technologies (Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or equivalent).
• 2+ years of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment.
• 2+ years of experience with the Atlassian tool stack (JIRA et alia).
• 2+ years of experience with .NET framework and programming tools (Visual Studio) and C#.
• 2+ years of experience in RabbitMQ.
• 2+ years of experience in Financial Services industry.
• 2+ years of experience in Test Driven Development.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to analyze and solve problems creatively, while meeting deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including offshore teams and manage offshore development activities.
• Ability to effectively engage subject matter experts and understand technical topics.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and business experts.
• Willingness and ability to learn all aspects of test data management and associated tools.
• Ability to research and document production and test environments along with architecture and design work.
• Proficient in developing Visio diagrams, architectural and design documentations, functional and technical specifications, automated test process.
• Track record of balancing management and delivery of problems, incidents, technical debt and product roadmap with awareness of target results/outcomes.
• Well-developed strategy for driving continuous improvement within teams and beyond; using both qualitative and quantitative measures to understand problems and communicate impact of experiments.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the demonstrable ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Experience relentlessly pursuing and maintaining high quality while delivering on tight schedules.
• Collaborative mindset coupled with a bias for action to effectively engage with all areas of the business.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of USD $180,000.00 - $210,000.00 per year.
• Full-time position with opportunities for career growth and development.