Director, Technology_RPS, Software Development & Engineering Senior (PL)

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career.  Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

As a member of the Retirement Technology (RT) Senior Leadership Team, you will lead multiple SCRUM teams that support the Schwab Retirement Plan Services (RPS) applications – aligning to business, operations and technology priorities.  You will be immersed in a collaborative, innovative, and technically challenging environment. The platforms you will support are essential to the success of the holistic Schwab Retirement lines of business. 

As a People Leader Director in the RPS Technology organization, you will lead managers and teams aligned with the following disciplines:

• A strategic transformative viewpoint of the suite of applications they support including a modernization roadmap and key areas of investment and the resulting benefits.
• Assessing and partnering with key strategic vendor relationships.
• Partnering with product and business partners to influence application changes that meet both business and technology drivers.
• Agile maturity that also balances short-term planning with full target roadmaps to align to.
• Proactive monitoring and compliance to currency and security programs and standards
• Coordination with SAVE partners to ensure robust runbooks and procedures are in place to support the applications in production

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years at the Director level, leading teams that support multiple critical applications
• 3+ years as a manager of managers – direct people leader experience, managing organizations of over 20 on and offshore team members
• 5+ years’ experience managing a combination of legacy and modern applications and designing and executing a modernization vision and strategy. 
• Experience in planning and executing a transformation strategy for a large eco-system of critical applications. 
• The ability to implement and track programs to measure and ensure application availability and security and currency compliance across enterprise programs. 
• Excellent communications skills that can convey updates to a variety of stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including preparing and delivering to executive level.

Preferred:

• Experience holding teams accountable to learning from production events and tracking root cause and action items to completion. 
• Fostering an environment of continual improvement, open and transparent conversations and a high degree comradery and coordination that is focus on outcomes.
• Experience in Financial and Retirement Services