Sr Manager, Software Engineering - Digital Utilities Technology

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

• Lead a segment of the Digital Utility Technology teams, focusing on client-centricity, reducing time to market, and increasing efficiency.
• Drive an insight-driven model that emphasizes rapid iterations, fostering innovation, and transformation.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments, confidently managing ambiguity, and embracing change.
• Facilitate cross-functional coordination and ownership to enable project success and contribute to the growth and transformation of the business.
• Oversee the software development process by following intelligent and efficient processes and standards.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality software releases on time, maintaining a focus on performance and scalability.
• Provide hands-on development and mentoring as necessary for all members of the team to ensure team and project success
• Work closely with product owners and team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.
• Prototype, validate, and create specific application solutions for business.
• Lead multiple teams and senior developers in execution of development pipeline and delivery of the organization’s software products to QA, and ultimately to Production.
• Interface with architects, product owners and key stakeholders in Project Management, Business, QA and Technology Operations to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time.
• Identify technology risks and dependencies early to establish mitigation plans.
• Create artifacts for each project such as Software Architecture documentation, Technical Use Cases, and Code Review Packages.
• Regularly meeting with onshore development leads to enhance code quality, requirements, and design methods.
• Create and organize strategies to utilize automated software test tools and frameworks such as test-driven development to achieve software quality standards.
• Support integration efforts to build whole systems from various subsystems.
• Support release manager to assemble releases and drive improvements in the release process.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 12 years of solid experience in software architecture, development and supporting object-oriented applications.
• Expert with multiple infrastructures EX: SNE, IAAS, PCF, GitHub, Informatica etc...
• Expert experience in dealing with Legacy and Modern frameworks such – Mainframe, .NET, .NET Core, Spring, Hibernate and understanding of UML (Unified Modeling Language)
• Expert understanding of object-oriented design, SOA, design patterns and maintenance.
• Exceptional experience supporting REST based Web Service API(s) in a transaction processing environment.
• Expert in supporting enterprise scale web solutions based upon n-tier architecture using open-source technologies (Angular / React), Microsoft Web API, and SQL / No-SQL Databases.
• Expert understanding of latest Architecture and Development Standards, Guidelines and SOLID principles.
• You should be comfortable in a fast-paced customer focused environment that continually embraces the latest technologies and techniques to support Schwab’s Tier 1 applications.
• A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.
• Ability to analyze, propose and implement timely, cost effective, quality solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical presentations or other forms of documentation to various level of technical and non-technical management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed multi-tier applications, WMI, NO SQL databases, and SQL is preferred.
• Experience in developing applications using modern streaming technologies and protocols.
• Independently plans own work and are accountable to meet schedules and deliverables.
• Experience providing guidance, direction, and feedback to other technical staff in order to meet agreed upon objectives.
• Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment.