Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

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.

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

The Test Governance & Compliance Senior position presents an exciting opportunity to have a direct impact on the quality and reliability of software products across the enterprise. The dynamic nature of the work, coupled with the drive for continuous improvement and innovation, ensures that each day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth.

This role stands out because it not only focuses on maintaining high standards of quality but also fosters a culture of accountability and collaboration throughout the organization. You will be at the forefront of shaping governance policies, influencing testing best practices, and integrating quality assurance into every phase of the software development lifecycle. Your contributions will help reduce risks and deliver tangible value to the business, making you a key driver of organizational success.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Policy Definition
Risk Management: Actively identify, assess, and mitigate risks within the software development life cycle (SDLC) to reduce the number of defects in production.
Audit Readiness: Manage the documentation and evidence collection required for internal or external compliance audits.

Quality Assurance & Compliance:
Tooling Optimization: Select, implement, and maintain advanced test tools, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and meet security requirements.
Agentic/AI Governance: Define safety and quality standards for AI-produced code, ensuring compliance of automated or generative systems.
Automated Governance & Technical Leadership

Process Improvement and Operational Excellence
CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into DevOps pipelines to ensure continuous, high-quality delivery.
Process Optimization: Initiate Kaizen or Lean activities to continuously improve test processes, increase efficiency, and reduce testing time.

Leadership and Collaboration
Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with DevOps, product, and security teams to align technical strategies with business goals.
Mentorship: Provide technical guidance, training, and mentoring to junior engineers and QA team members.
Stakeholder Reporting: Communicate testing status, risks, and performance metrics to senior management.

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

Technical Expertise and Educational Requirements

*Please note, these requirements will be used to advance or disqualify candidates and must be objective and measurable.

▪ 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with significant hands-on, technical leadership, and management experience.
▪ Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and compliance standards (e.g., ISO, Regulatory Frameworks).
▪ Designs advanced support processes and mentors peers to optimize functionality and security
▪ Establishes robust processes to create, secure, and monitor data pipelines and stores
▪ Designs efficient processes to resolve incidents and minimize downtime
▪ Develops QA processes that confirm compliance and ensure operational reliability
▪ Streamlines requirement analysis and validation for enhanced efficiency
▪ Designs security processes to enhance security and regulatory compliance
▪ Enhances processes that merge predictive and adaptive software design techniques
▪ Designs efficient processes that ensure quality and resolve issues in software components
▪ Optimizes processes for secure, compliant, and reliable software releases
▪ Optimizes design processes by integrating predictive or adaptive methods with cloud principles

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Synthesizes complex data, manages resources, and develops strategic insights
▪ Establishes communication processes for smooth information flow with others involved in a project or effort
▪ Provides thought leadership in the business area and independently drives strategic initiatives
▪ Enables stakeholders to align decisions with business goals
▪ Influences best practices to plan to prepare for opportunities or challenges
▪ Champions innovative solutions to improve efficiency
▪ Influences decisions that drive functional success and operational improvements
▪ Verbally articulates ideas impactfully, fostering open dialogue
▪ Inspires confidence with proven expertise, integrity, and accurate communication
▪ Presents compelling arguments to inspire action
▪ Sets performance-driven goals across groups and drives continuous improvement
▪ Leverages diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs
▪ Sets and upholds high-quality standards while empowering teams to to strive for excellence in their work
▪ Creates clear, persuasive, and professional written documents that meet business standards

Job Sub-Family Specific Competencies

• Analytical Thinking - Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach
• Attention To Communication - Ensuring that information is passed on to others who should be kept informed
• Business Acumen - Ability to perform with insight, acuteness, and intelligence in the areas of the industry
• Decision Making - Make decisions and act in situations in which there is not enough information to be certain of outcome or implications of the decision
• Forward Thinking – Anticipating consequences of situations and taking appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies
• Influencing Others – Ability to gain others support for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions
• Quality Assurance Testing – Confirming the integrity and reliability of business operations through rigorous testing and compliance verification