Charles Schwab · 13 hours ago
Sr Team Manager, Software Development & Engineering
Southlake, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelCharles Schwab is a leading financial services firm that empowers its employees to make an impact on their careers. The Senior Manager within Retirement Plan Services Tech Engineering will lead multiple software engineering teams to build scalable systems and modernize the platform, focusing on operational excellence and client impact.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Influence, coach, and develop talent
Provide day‑to‑day coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development for direct reports; communicate clear objectives and goals
Know your directs’ career aspirations; create individual development plans, ensure training opportunities; practice servant leadership
Manage budgets, risk, and resourcing
Forecast and manage project budgets and staffing across teams; exercise supervision over costs, methods, and staffing
Understand and manage risk (key knowledge, attestation, access, change); take controlled risks when appropriate and learn from outcomes
Lead and deliver outcomes
Direct multiple teams of professional engineers to ship resilient, scalable software and APIs; own results across sub‑functions and continuously improve processes
Launch new projects, prioritize across portfolio and Technology Initiatives, and ensure every production change improves the product/platform; manage dependencies end‑to‑end
Own production and operational excellence
Ensure 24×7 support for your functional area; define, publish, and meet SLAs
Lead techlines and post‑incident follow‑ups; maintain clear understanding of your production footprint and upstream/downstream dependencies
Partner with SAvE teams and platform partners to ensure services are deployed, configured, sized, monitored, and documented appropriately
Raise the bar on engineering quality
Build a culture that challenges assumptions and seeks continuous improvement
Hold teams accountable for defect ratios, technical debt, standards adherence, and best practices; coach teams to produce elegant, maintainable designs and implementations
Partner across the enterprise
Collaborate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders; influence decisions among peers and next‑level leaders; resolve conflicts with STS/Product leaders when outcomes are at risk
Align short‑ and mid‑term goals with long‑term org strategy; raise concerns when implementations diverge from strategic direction
Qualification
Required
Leadership & delivery scope: Manage multiple teams; independent decision‑making; talent management excellence; strategic alignment; cross‑functional influence
.NET ecosystem expertise: C#/.NET (Core), ASP.NET, dependency injection, async patterns, secure coding, API design (REST/gRPC), performance & observability
Cloud architecture (private & public): Proven design/operation of distributed systems on private cloud and at least one public cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP): VPC/VNet, IAM, containers/Kubernetes, service mesh, messaging/streaming, secrets management, cost‑aware architectures
Applied AI in software delivery: Practical experience integrating AI into products/platforms (e.g., intelligent services, retrieval pipelines, model‑driven features) with strong grounding in data pipelines, model lifecycle, inference performance, and guardrails
DevOps/SRE & operational excellence: CI/CD, artifact/versioning, progressive delivery, infrastructure‑as‑code, monitoring/alerting (logs, metrics, traces), capacity planning, DR, resilience testing, incident/problem management
Security, compliance, and standards: Working knowledge of firm cloud security controls, identity/federation, secure development standards; ability to enforce standards and file findings where needed (e.g., eGRC)
Preferred
Architecture craftsmanship: Advanced fluency with Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture for large distributed systems; mentor teams on bounded contexts, aggregates, and dependency inversion
Vendor/offshore leadership: Effectiveness leading blended teams (FTE + offshore/vendor), establishing working agreements, and maintaining delivery quality and engagement
Financial domain context (RPS): Retirement recordkeeping/plan configuration/transaction processing; connect engineering choices to client outcomes and regulatory expectations
Executive communication: Concise, data‑backed updates (dashboards, SLAs, quality/throughput trends) suitable for senior leadership and cross‑functional partners
Benefits
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
Company
Charles Schwab
We have plans for every turn you take.
Founded in 1973
10001+ employees
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