Senior Production Support Manager

Your OpportunityAt 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).Advisor Wealth and Asset Technology (AWAT), part of Schwab Technology Services (STS), supports the Wealth & Advice Solutions (WAS) organization. As a Senior Manager in WAS Technology Operations, you will lead a team supporting Schwab advisors while advancing future capabilities through AI and cloud adoption. In this technology operations leadership role, you will lead teams responsible for the reliability, stability, and operational readiness of enterprise applications and platforms. You will guide incident response, service restoration, release readiness, and continuous improvement while making informed decisions that strengthen service performance and reduce recurring issues.Success will require strong technical leadership, problem solving, and adaptability as you use operational data, logs, metrics, and monitoring insights to identify risks and improve reliability. You will collaborate across US and India delivery teams, engineering, product, business stakeholders, and senior leaders to align priorities, communicate operational health, and coordinate releases and escalations. Through effective leadership and partnership, you will develop team capability, strengthen operational practices, and help deliver resilient technology services.What you haveRequired Qualifications:10+ years of experience in technology operations, production support, platform support, application support, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or enterprise technology environments, including 5+ years of people leadership experienceProven Leadership of support operations involving incident response, service restoration, escalation, operational readiness, and continuous improvementDemonstrated Technical Leadership across production support processes, including ticket prioritization, root cause analysis, problem management, service-level performance, and recurring issue preventionStrong Change Management experience supporting deployment planning, change coordination, release communications, rollback planning, and post-release validationStrong Problem Solving skills using logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and operational trends to diagnose issues and improve reliabilityDemonstrated Cross-Functional Collaboration with engineering, product, business, technology delivery, and senior leadership teamsStrong Communication skills for operational updates, incident summaries, release communications, executive briefings, and reportingBachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of experience; or master’s degree with 7+ years of experienceExperience supporting technology within financial services, trading, wealth management, or another highly regulated enterprise environmentPreferred Qualifications:Experience applying Process Improvement to reduce recurring issues, strengthen operational controls, improve service reliability, and automate manual support activitiesExperience with DevOps, continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, GitHub, and release automationExperience with Cloud Services Management, including Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure environments, and KubernetesExperience using ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Grafana, Control-M, or similar operational support and monitoring technologiesExperience with Metrics Analysis to evaluate incident trends, service-level performance, detection and restoration times, release health, and change successExperience with Knowledge Management, including runbooks, support procedures, escalation paths, readiness checklists, and knowledge articlesFamiliarity with ITIL practices and Agile, Kanban, Scrum, or similar delivery frameworksRelevant ITIL, Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Scrum, PMP, or other technology operations, cloud, or project management certificationsIn addition to the salary range, this role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.Job SummaryRequisition ID: 2026-127567Posted Date: 10 hours ago(10/1/2026 5:16 PM)Category: Engineering & Software DevelopmentSalary Range: USD $175,000.00 - $205,000.00 / YearApplication deadline: 10/9/2026Position Type: Full time