Senior Manager- Technology Leader – Billing & Fees

Your opportunity

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and a commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

We are seeking a passionate Development Manager to lead a talented team of engineers responsible for building and enhancing applications that power billing and invoicing capabilities across the diverse suite of Schwab’s financial products. As part of our Billing Solutions Technology team, you will oversee a portfolio of best-in-class applications, including both SaaS and custom-built solutions, designed to meet the complex billing needs of our clients. Our technology stack includes user interfaces, system integrations, data aggregation, advanced fee calculation logic, and robust reporting tools that process billions in revenue annually. You’ll be responsible for enabling the team to achieve consistent, predictable, high-quality solutions that support Managed Investing product launches in a flexible, collaborative and rapidly changing delivery environment. You will serve as a strong and versatile hands-on technical leader for the team and collaborate with key technology and business stakeholders focused on crafting modern client experiences. You will be working with a team of talented and highly motivated engineers that strive to make technology a strategic differentiator for Schwab’s clients and business. If you’re looking to bring your expertise to a firm that will provide consistent challenges, promoting development and ownership of your career, this is the role for you.

• Empower your team to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions that support new product launches in a dynamic, agile environment.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader, collaborating closely with technology and business stakeholders to create modern, client-focused experiences.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, working alongside highly motivated engineers to make technology a strategic advantage for our business.
• Leverage understanding of software development principles and practices to help mentor and coach junior team members.
• Support and triage issues and participate in production support to help develop resilient and secure systems to prevent customer impacts.
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to define strategy and scope of software requirements (decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks)
• Delivering new concepts and features, working alongside development peers and product owners in an agile environment
• Utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve the highest quality in software delivery
• Drive the low-level design of software components and libraries used to implement business use cases
• Participate in migrating software product releases into the Production environment.
• Proactively identify risks, establish mitigation plans, and maintain documentation and code quality standards.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology OR related degree and practical experience
• 8+ years of management experience leading teams of 10+ software engineers, preferably in a large, complex and geographically dispersed organization
• 8+ years of hands-on experience managing the software development lifecycle with a strong breadth of capabilities including Java, .NET, SQL, REST, SOAP, design patterns, database design and public/private cloud technologies building complex, resilient, and highly scalable applications in a large enterprise
• 6+ years implementing software development best practices as the go-to development partner between principals and the scrum team members
• 6+ years coaching team members to aid in identifying and achieving their personal and professional development goals
• 6+ years managing team structure by identifying resource needs, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new engineers and analysts
• 6+ years providing project execution transparency and communicate with senior management and stakeholders on application and project status, risks, and issues; create reporting artifacts such burn-down charts, project roadmaps with key milestones, and status reports
• 6+ years demonstrating senior level written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the demonstrable ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• 6+ years demonstrating collaborative mindset coupled with a bias for action to effectively engage with all areas of the business including Product Management, Architects, SRE, and adjacent teams, etc.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in real time (API), asynchronous (message queue like rabbit) and batch technologies
• 2+ years experience in Financial Services industry
• Extensive experience leading solution delivery teams inclusive of scope, scheduling, budgeting, and project planning in an environment with aggressive delivery goals
• Extensive experience working in, and leading, Agile (Scrum) delivery teams with a focus on continuous improvement and a track record of high performance
• Significant experience transforming teams through technology, organization, culture, process, and business change management.
• Ability to analyze and solve problems creatively.
• Track record of mentoring and coaching team members to strengthen the organization.
• Positive attitude, enthusiasm, professionalism and strong work ethic with high level of integrity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, related degree, OR related practical experience
• 5+ years of experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), or AWS or GCP
• 2+ years Prior experience in IT Transformations and system modernization initiatives from legacy to distributed platforms, i.e., Mainframe Cobol apps/DB2 to Java apps/SQL or MongoDB
• Experience integrating with Billing SaaS provides
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in an Agile working environment
• Experience with 1 or more scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, DAD, Nexus)
• DevOps experience: continuous integration, continuous build, continuous delivery tools and techniques.
• ATDD, BDD, TDD, and pair programming, and other eXtreme Programming (XP) practices
• Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights