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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• ​​Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and identify opportunities for modernization.
• Familiarity with building interfaces between Legacy and modern distributed applications.
• Be able to contribute to solutioning, Design and implementation of modernization strategies for legacy applications, including mainframe migration and refactoring, mainframe callouts to Distributed platforms.
• Evaluate existing legacy systems and propose solutions for improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain automated processes for legacy application, ensuring consistency and efficiency.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends related to legacy application modernization.
• Proven exposure to AI automation (GitHub Copilot, Generative AI tools, Agentic AI, etc.).
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with business stakeholders, platform teams, Architects and other domain teams.
• Ability to act as a mentor for the technical team, providing guidance, support, and knowledge sharing to other developers looking to augment their skillsets with Mainframe and Distributed Technologies.
• Strong commitment to adhering to project timelines and delivering high-quality results within specified deadlines.
• Understanding of the importance of timely completion of tasks and projects, with a proactive approach to addressing any obstacles or challenges that may arise. ​

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in mainframe technologies– COBOL, JCL, DB2, Datacom, SQL, SQL Stored Procedures, Messaging Queues (IBM MQ, Kafka), CICS, Easytrieve, REXX and SORT utilities.
• 15+ years of experience as a software developer, with at least 6+ years in a senior Technology Lead role.
• 5+ years in tools such as Control-M, ChangeMan, FileAid, Startool, Xpeditor, TOAD, and SPUFI.
• At a minimum 6 months – 1 year of AI exposure and automation using AI, specifically GitHub Copilot, Python, etc.
• Proven track record of leading the architecture solution, Design & Development of complex, enterprise-level software systems.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience in Financial Industry – specifically with Brokerage Business and transactions processing/Balances/Positions – Books & Records systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles and scalability considerations.
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience in mentoring software development teams.
• Good experience with legacy applications modernization.
• Strong proficiency in and proven exposure to Distributed technologies (e.g., Java, Javascript, .NET, C#, Springboot, MongoDB, Cloud, Postgres, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical skillsets should include 3-5 years of good exposure to C#/.Net, Java, Springboot, GitHub and CI/CD processes and automation, testing automation.
• Some experience and familiarity with file transmissions, Cloud, SPOS, REST APIs, Callouts from Mainframe to Distributed services, KAFKA, KAFKA Connect, Security Tokens and authentication mechanisms. ​