Sr Software Engineering Team Manager

About the role

This role is a key growth engine for Schwab, focusing on delivering innovative retirement, equity, and workplace financial solutions. The successful candidate will lead software delivery teams, ensuring they produce high-quality outputs while navigating a rapidly changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent production of high-quality software outputs by guiding and supporting all aspects of software delivery, including design, development, testing, deployment, tooling, and support.
• Act as a strong, versatile hands-on technical leader to deliver high-quality solutions that align with business objectives.
• Drive the adoption of generative AI and machine learning technologies throughout the software development lifecycle, overseeing AI-assisted code generation, debugging, and architectural design.
• Lead efforts to assemble and lead teams that develop distributed, scalable enterprise-class applications using technologies like C#, ASP, .NET, Delphi, Angular, SQL Server, Oracle, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAML, OAuth, REST, and SOAP-based APIs.
• Build and maintain a team that leverages each member's strengths to achieve team, organizational, and corporate goals.
• Communicate effectively with peers, partners, and all levels of the technology organization to articulate complex technical issues and exceed customer expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 10+ years of progressive experience in IT across Software Engineering/Development roles
• 5+ years of people leadership, supporting highly technical individuals
• 5+ years of experience running small to medium-sized projects and initiatives
• Experience leading efforts to drive the adoption of generative AI and machine learning technologies throughout the SDLC
• Hands-on experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) processes in planning, implementation, and support of business applications, including change & release management
• Strong knowledge of, and demonstrated expertise in, software design, development, testing, maintenance, and support
• Leadership, communication, facilitation, and motivational skills, with the ability to build rapport with and influence team members, peers, and partners
• Able to attract, engage, and retain top, diverse technical talent
• Ability to coach team members to aid in identifying and achieving their personal and professional development goals
• Understanding and leveraging team member strengths to accomplish team, organization, and corporate goals
• Client-focused mindset, driven to understand and exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Qualifications

• Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, and motivational skills
• Ability to attract, engage, and retain top, diverse technical talent
• Ability to coach team members to aid in identifying and achieving their personal and professional development goals
• Understanding and leveraging team member strengths to accomplish team, organization, and corporate goals
• Client-focused mindset, driven to understand and exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Skills

• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Financial Services industry experience
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
• Familiarity with Cloud Platforms such as PCF, GCP and AWS
• A software engineering background

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance