Program Director and Business Systems Analysis (BSA) Leader

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.

Reporting into a Portfolio Leader for Operations and BDM in the Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) organization, this individual will provide program management leadership as well as manage the Business Systems Analyst team.  In addition to management of the overall health and monitoring of the portfolios, our team collaborates across the organization to deliver value through efficient, focused, and predictable project execution of solutions to business problems and opportunities. 

The Director will provide program management and BSA leadership.  Priorities are driven by the firm's strategic focus areas.  The Director and their team will provide skilled BSA leadership to our highest priority work.

Key responsibilities:

• Provides Program Management leadership as needed on critical work efforts.
• Oversees the BSA team in delivering skilled analysis to important work.
• Weighs competing priorities across many initiatives.
• Drives a high performing team.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree. 
• 12+ years as a program/project leader - managing multiple large, sophisticated, and cross functional projects.
• Extensive program/project management experience.  Managed over $15+ million per year in program/project work.
• Recent experience (within past 5 years) as a direct people manager of 4 or more resources - including responsibility for objectives and reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior business and technology leaders for success.
• Exceptional relationship management skills, as well as very strong business and technology acumen.
• Strong business and technology acumen. Able to manage multiple large, complex, and cross functional technology projects and navigate in complex matrixed environments.
• Team player who can work across organizations to deliver to success and assume ownership and accountability for delivery excellence.
• Builds trust through the ability to communicate tough messages and statuses effectively for various stakeholders while always tying those messages to business objectives.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial services with extensive business and technology experience.
• Experience in working with projects in the client service technology area.
• Experience in scaled agile practices (SAFe).
• Experience in use of MS project, Jira, Confluence, Rally, and SharePoint.

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