Sr. Manager, Software Development & Engineering

Your opportunity

At 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.

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

The Reference Data Platform (RDP) requires a Senior Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior role to ensure continuity and stability of the existing platform while supporting the transition to a distributed Postgres architecture. This role is critical to mitigating operational risk by bridging legacy mainframe and modern systems, ensuring business rule integrity during migration. This senior technical resource will play a pivotal role in modernization efforts by advancing automation using AI and large-scale validation capabilities, leading critical incident management, and providing technical leadership across onshore and offshore teams to sustain platform stability and drive efficient operations.

Ensure continuity and stability of the existing platform while supporting the transition to a distributed

Postgres architecture Bridge legacy mainframe and modern systems, ensuring accurate carryover of business rules

Develop and drive data validation strategies between DB2 and Postgres to mitigate migration risk

Lead critical incident management (war rooms), ensuring rapid resolution and operational stability

Optimize batch processing and implement automation for large-scale data validation and reconciliation

Provide technical leadership and guidance to onshore and offshore teams, including production support

Drive operational efficiency and support ongoing modernization initiatives

What you have

Required Qualifications

▪ Designs advanced support processes and mentors peers to optimize functionality and security

▪ Establishes robust processes to create, secure, and monitor data pipelines and stores

▪ Designs efficient processes to resolve incidents and minimize downtime

▪ Develops QA processes that confirm compliance and ensure operational reliability

▪ Streamlines requirement analysis and validation for enhanced efficiency

▪ Designs security processes to enhance security and regulatory compliance

▪ Enhances processes that merge predictive and adaptive software design techniques

▪ Designs efficient processes that ensure quality and resolve issues in software components

▪ Optimizes processes for secure, compliant, and reliable software releases

▪ Optimizes design processes by integrating predictive or adaptive methods with cloud principles

▪ Experience with Schwab technology domain gained as a current or recent contractor or employee

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights

▪ Establishes communication processes for smooth information flow with others involved in a project or

effort

▪ Provides thought leadership in the business area and independently drives strategic initiatives

▪ Enables stakeholders to align decisions with business goals

▪ Influences best practices to plan to prepare for opportunities or challenges

▪ Champions innovative solutions to improve efficiency

▪ Influences decisions that drive functional success and operational improvements

▪ Verbally articulates ideas impactfully, fostering open dialogue

▪ Inspires confidence with proven expertise, integrity, and accurate communication

▪ Presents compelling arguments to inspire action

▪ Sets performance-driven goals across groups and drives continuous improvement

▪ Leverages diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs

▪ Sets and upholds high-quality standards while empowering teams to to strive for excellence in their

work

▪ Creates clear, persuasive, and professional written documents that meet business standards

Job Sub-Family Specific Competencies

▪ Analytical Thinking - Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach

▪ Data Engineering Fundamentals - Strategically managing and operationalizing data pipelines and storage

systems for data mining, analytics, and machine learning, prioritizing compliance, security, and scalability

▪ Results Orientation - Focusing on the desired end result of one’s own or one’s units work

Setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them

▪ Software Design and Specifications – Developing software solutions that meet requirements using

established design principles and standards, employing predictive or adaptive design techniques, including

plan-driven or iterative/agile approaches

▪ Software Development – Implementing standards, processes, and methods to create, test, and verify

software components, ensuring reliability and resolving operational problems and bugs

▪ Software Release and Deployment – Managing the deployment of software updates while ensuring

compliance with safety, security, and quality standards

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 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

What’s in it for you:

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

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

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io.