Senior Software Development & Engineering Manager

$101,000 - $224,400/Yr

Charles Schwab - Westlake, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Westlake, TX

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

About the position

The Senior Software Development & Engineering Manager at Schwab is responsible for leading multiple teams focused on large-scale software development and engineering. This role involves managing platform support for key Schwab systems, ensuring efficient delivery of technology solutions, and fostering collaboration among various stakeholders. The manager will play a crucial role in aligning business needs with technical solutions, advocating for team requirements, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the needs of the business and using this knowledge to align on a solution and drive delivery.
• Deliver efficient solutions on time and engage your teams and partners in better ways of delivering.
• Provide advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise while doing their work.
• Advocate for what your team needs to deliver and effectively manage risk.
• Proactively able to see gaps and mitigate risks such as delivery, scalability, performance, security, compliance, operational readiness, and work to respond to them.
• Effectively navigate cross-functional communication to ensure alignment between teams and within one team.
• Cultivating a culture of open feedback that promotes accountability for getting better together.
• Collaborate with your internal partners and product owners to have a shared understanding of risk, so the team is pulling in the right work, at the right time.
• Reducing technical debt over time.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement.
• Understand Engineering KPIs and seek experiments to improve them.
• Anticipate future staffing requirements and partner with Talent Acquisition or staffing vendor.
• Seeing opportunities for team member's professional development and collaborating with the right partners to make it happen.
• Providing coaching, mentorship, and career development.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in actively developing large scale software using a modern language like Java and/or .Net.
• 5+ years of software development management experience leading teams of ~10 people comprised of full-time, onshore, and offshore in a large organization using Lean Kanban practices.
• 4+ years of experience working with containers and microservices in the cloud.
• Good knowledge of relational database, NoSQL databases and messaging technologies (Rabbit MQ, Kafka, or equivalent).

Nice-to-haves

• 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 including Product Management, Architects, SRE, Talent Acquisition, Finance, adjacent teams, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to disagree, argue your case with data, and commit to deliver regardless of the outcome of the disagreement.

Benefits

• Bonus or incentive opportunities