Sr Manager, Software Engineering - Core Brokerage Services Engineering

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.

Schwab’s Corporate Actions and Balances, Positions & Transactions (CABPT) technology organization is recruiting to hire a results-oriented and talented Technology leader with a strong track record of technology-enabled business delivery. CABPT is part of the Core Brokerage Services Engineering (CBSE) which provides Asset Servicing, Custodial, Clearing and other Core Brokerage business capabilities to Schwab’s Retail and Institutional businesses. CABPT has a bimodal technology stack with a significant portion of its Technology assets on legacy mainframe platform along with a growing modern, distributed set of applications. 
We are seeking a strong leader to manage the team for CABPT, Cost Basis & Tax, and Customer reporting domains.

The primary responsibility of the Senior Manager is to own the core applications which support the above-mentioned areas. This encompasses high-volume transactions generating Applications and critical back-office systems leveraged across multiple lines of business. You will be accountable for developing and supporting technology processes and teams that enhance, modernize, manage change, perform production support and maintenance of new & legacy applications that run on Distributed and on Mainframe platforms.

This role requires leading scrum teams of individual contributors including Engineers in Development and Test, Technical Analysts, Scrum Masters, working on Modernization & Distributed Technology stack as well as those maintaining a legacy mainframe platform, collaborating with the Modernization teams.  This individual must have proven track record of strong execution, organizational and people leadership capabilities to lead Agile-oriented Product Development teams. The ability to understand and align with technology and business goals and the ability to clearly communicate with senior business leadership.  Candidates should have a passion for emerging technologies and be capable of influencing and inspiring teams in developing innovative solutions that meet the Business needs.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership and Management

• 3-5 years of managing multiple scrum teams, comprising of Full-Time Employees as well as Vendor team members.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively inspire and influence teams and partners in delivering technology enabled business solutions that meet business needs.
• Ability to build strong relationships and promote collaboration across technology, Platform/Product and Business areas.
• Ability to identify talent, recruit, hire, and build high performing Agile teams from ground up.
• Ability to thrive in a flexible and fast-paced environment.
• Experience in planning, implementation, and support of business application components, including change and release management.
• Strong analytical, multitasking skills, highly self-motivated and self-directed.

Technical

• Professional experience guiding teams in building scalable enterprise applications with high availability and reliability.
• Strong technology affinity and experience, as well as attention to detail and the ability to design, execute against strategic goals.
• Experience leading in an Agile environment and implementing Continuous Deliver is a big plus.
• Broad and deep knowledge of IT/software technology and trends, domain knowledge and experience in Distributed application development, web services, middleware, databases.
• Good knowledge of Distributed platforms (including Cloud), Microsoft Windows, standard relational databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB.
• Experience leading legacy technology stack and some exposure to mainframe.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline.
• 3-5 years of leading and managing IT teams, with project management, resource management, and Vendor resource management capabilities.
• 3+ years of experience in Financial Services Industry a plus, specifically in Brokerage Business.
• 3+ years of experience with running medium to large/complex projects with multiple dependencies.

• Exposure/familiarity with AI automation, including GitHub Copilot.

• Familiarity with Change Release and Agile tools such as ChangeMan, BMC Remedy, Jira, Rally.