Senior Technical Program Manager

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).

The Workplace Services Engineering – Stock Plan Technology organization leads the development and maintenance of Schwab's Workplace Services platforms.  Our team is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, who embraces being a technical leader and has a real passion for helping teams to build compelling applications using state-of-the-art technologies. Our mission is to build robust solutions that achieve measurable value, which empower our clients. In WSE – SPT, we work hard every day to improve the experience for our clients, using cutting-edge technology and creative solutions to solve hard problems.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate new initiatives to support the technical and business strategy of the organization
• Plan the delivery of the multi-team initiatives and activities
• Drive large, complex projects to completion and execute roadmaps, while championing business and technical goals
• Manage interdependencies across a high number of scrum teams and organizations
• Lead and coordinate the establishment of lower environment operations and test data management framework
• Liaise with a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure needs and expectations are met
• Work across specialized business and technical partners to broker decisions and negotiate trade-offs
• Communicate effectively at an executive and team level
• Mediate and resolve conflicts, maintain a strategic focus when making decisions
• Demonstrate sound judgment regarding decisions and escalations with complete information
• Provide supervision and direction to project teams to ensure successful execution
• Ensure quality and evidence of project documentation
• Understanding of Agile processes, team velocity and the ability to forecast progress accordingly
• Collaborate across Design, Development, QA, Operations, and Governance teams to help remove roadblocks
• Coordinate with external vendors and internal technical and legal teams to manage relationships and contractual agreements

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) with 6+ years of project management experience, managing multiple large, complex and cross-functional projects
• Requires specialized expertise in service delivery, lower environment operations and test data management in addition to working knowledge of related functions and sub-functions
• Proven ability to earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders through focused execution of business priorities
• Proven ability to deliver highly visible, complex projects
• Ability to navigate and be successful in a highly matrixed organization
• Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
• Demonstrated and applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management tools and methodologies
• Experience successfully driving initiatives in an organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Requires knowledge of Java, .NET, PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), Window/Linux Infrastructure, Oracle, SQL DB, Mongo DB
• Understanding of the Equity Compensation industry and how work contributes to the achievement of objectives
• Exercises judgment within undefined procedures and practices to determine appropriate actions. Ability to read a room and drive the necessary outcomes.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.