Tech Lead_Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering

About the role

Schwab Technology Services is building the technology that helps create more connected, reliable, and personalized experiences for millions of clients. In this role, you will help build and evolve the Schwab Customer Identifier platform, the unified identity layer that helps resolve the same client across Schwab affiliates and supports a more complete view of each customer across lines of business.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership while remaining close to the code.
• Design scalable solutions, guide architecture decisions, improve engineering quality, and help the team deliver client-facing functionality from scoping through production rollout.
• Shape a critical platform, influence modern engineering practices, and contribute to technology that supports Schwab’s client-first mission.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in Java development, including designing, building, and supporting high-volume, highly available enterprise applications.
• Strong Systems Engineering capability, including designing scalable, resilient, maintainable systems across applications, services, and data flows.
• Experience designing and supporting REST APIs, Microservices, and enterprise integration patterns that enable reliable system interoperability.
• Experience with Cloud Services Management and cloud-based deployment practices in a CI/CD delivery model.
• DevOps mindset, including continuous build, source control, deployment automation, code quality, and production ownership.
• Strong Data Management experience with relational or NoSQL databases, data models, data integrity, and real-time or batch data movement.
• Experience with Generative AI or AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to support code development, testing, review, documentation, and automation while maintaining ownership of quality and correctness.
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills, including the ability to partner with product, architecture, vendors, offshore teams, and internal stakeholders to drive delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience working in product-engineering environments where engineers own systems, outcomes, and production quality.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Yugabyte, event-driven systems, message queues, or streaming platforms.
• Experience with GCP, PCF, AWS, Azure, or similar cloud and platform environments.
• Experience translating low-level design elements, API contracts, class structures, and data models into structured specifications.
• Experience establishing team-level engineering practices for code quality, AI-assisted workflows, automation, test coverage, and delivery consistency.
• Influence technical strategy, lead proof-of-concepts, evaluate new technologies, and guide decisions using data, risk, and business impact.

Skills

• Java
• Technical Leadership
• Systems Engineering
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• Cloud Services Management
• DevOps
• Data Management
• Generative AI
• Stakeholder Management

Benefits

The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities. Additionally, the benefits package includes:

• 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 for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

Pay

Salary range is provided. Bonus or incentive opportunities are also available.

Schedule

This role is hybrid, balancing flexibility with the need for regular in-person collaboration.