Sr Manager - Software Development and Engineering - EMOST

Job Description

Your Opportunity

Schwab has been doing in-house, native mobile development for several years but every business channel in Schwab is increasing their presence on the mobile platform. We are looking to grow a high performing, engaged mobile development team that is passionate about delivering an excellent mobile experience for our users. Schwab’s ever growing mobile user base is asking for more features and more and interesting visualizations and interactions. Come join the team and make your mark on a highly distributed, visible and valued product.

What you are good at

The individual will manage a team of middleware engineers and ensure solutions are designed and implemented in a manner which meets all business requirements as well as maintains alignment to all applicable technology and quality standards.

• Technology Strategy
• Maintain organization's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting your teams strategy to align with broader Mobile Technology strategy
• Be responsible for putting together technology roadmap and partnering with business on the business roadmap.
• Deliver value and maintain Ops Excellence
• Deliver business and technology commitments in a timely fashion.
• Verify application results by conducting system quality audits of technologies implemented.
• Preserve software assets by ensuring the team’s adherence to disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
• Recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
• Ensure that the applications are available as per SLAs, that monitoring is in place and implement process/tools changes as needed
• Support the Production support group and ensure that run books are updated constantly
• Technical skills
• Mobile Application or Web Application solution design experience in order to lead solution delivery
• Partnering with Technical directors and other technology partners on application architecture and design
• Direct and lead technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Hiring and retaining top talent
• Screen and hire high-performing, talented and passionate Mobile application developers.
• Build and maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.
• Leadership and team management skills
• Manage a team of full time Mobile developers, contractors and offshore resources
• Communicate to staff about job expectations; plan, monitor, and appraise job results;
• Coaching and mentoring employees
• Initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.

What you have

• Experience as a technical lead, coaching and mentoring a diverse, geographically-distributed team of Application developers. Must be a good leader, guide and support the team, business and technology partners with solution development.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with application development, Middleware development or Solution architecture building complex, resilient and highly scalable applications in a large enterprise. Experience with Mobile applications is highly desirable
• Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends and be able to implement them
• Must have good understanding of technical issues, designs, and engineering best practices
• Understanding of agile methods and processes, and capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Organizationally savvy, with a good understanding of the enterprise's political climate and how to navigate, influence and persuade political waters
• The candidate will be expected to monitor production support queues, be available on-call, assist in resolving production issues as well as help identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Must have experience with strategic planning, developing and managing budget, coaching & mentoring technical team members
• Skillful in problem solving and cross-organization collaboration
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• 3+ years of experience in Financial Services Industry is preferred.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related field.

Learn more about Life@Schwab.

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is Schwab's policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, military status, citizenship status or any other status that is protected by law.

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