Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Lead (PL)

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.

Schwab India

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​

What you have

Strategic Leadership and Global Partnership
- India Site Leadership: Establish and lead thinkorswim Technology's first India footprint, including operating model, organization design, and phased scaling plans up to 50 professionals.
- Enterprise Alignment: Serve as the primary India liaison across product, architecture, operations, risk, and compliance teams to ensure clear priorities, transparency, and cross-functional alignment.
- Technical Domain Representation: Adequately understand and communicate key technical concepts in order management and trading to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Delivery Execution and Operational Excellence
- End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Lead end-to-end delivery for specific modules in the TOS ecosystem, ensuring predictability across scope, timeline and quality
- Engineering Excellence: Drive modern SDLC practices, CI/CD discipline, observability, release governance, and reliability engineering for sustainable throughput.
- Risk and Controls: Ensure adherence to security, privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements within a regulated financial-services environment.

Talent and Organization Development
- Talent Strategy: Build, develop, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams; implement hiring, onboarding, and succession strategies.
- Leadership Development: Coach managers and technical leaders; establish clear accountability, performance expectations, and growth pathways.
- Culture and Engagement: Foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture grounded in collaboration, ownership, and client-focused outcomes

​​Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering and technology delivery, including 10+ years in people leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience in a large, global Financial Services organization.
- Proven software delivery leadership in highly connected ecosystems with multiple dependencies across platforms and teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level reporting and influence in a matrixed environment.

Technical and Domain Qualifications
- Experience with event-driven integration patterns such as asynchronous messaging, pub/sub architectures, and inter-system communication using APIs, queues, or messaging middleware.  Java experience is strongly preferred.
- Practical knowledge of distributed systems, including high-availability design, resiliency patterns, and dependency management across tightly integrated platforms.
- Fundamental understanding of equities and options trading, including order lifecycle, market data, and operational dependencies.
- Experience working in regulated environments where auditability, resiliency, and control effectiveness are critical.​