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The Senior Manager of Systems Availability Engineering will assume a leadership role in the highly visible Client Trader Experience and Market Data Technology team leading Schwab's Cloud and on-prem efforts. The Senior Manager will lead teams working on high availability, maintainability, support and production automation of the trading platforms. The Senior Manager will drive change within the Client Trader Experience and Market Data Technology organization to build a world class Service Availability and Engineering organization, drive application automation and take a visible leadership role leading a consistent operating model, including standard processes, KPIs and practices for service availability, production automation and engineering.
Job Responsibility:
Participate with other senior leaders to translate strategic plans and goals into tactical plans and objectives for setting priorities. Be the decision maker for administrative or operational matters and ensure objectives are effectively achieved. Provide input to strategy setting
Build and realize the strategy and lead internal business management functions for the organization, as well as guide the future growth and development of the organization
Provide input to policy development impacting company-wide issues. Including policy development to manage risk and exposure for the company
Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the company and evaluation of intangibles. Participate in corporate development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs and people. Ensure budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. Exercise judgement in determining the methods, techniques and approaches for obtaining results
Regularly interact with executives and business partners. Communicate strategic technology plans to associated business partners ensuring collaboration across technology and the business. Create formal networks involving coordination among groups.
Lead highly experienced technologists, creating successful plans to deliver solutions to the business
Contribute to the overall architectural strategy of the STS organization
Direct the strategic and tactical business management goals for the team, building client driven technology teams improving the software quality, stability, and availability of technology service provided to the functional businesses
Build processes and policies that meet or exceed federal guidelines and requirements for financial institutions all while developing frameworks for operational effectiveness that ensure the technology portfolio and governance aligns to the firms' strategic business goals and objectives
Exercise managerial rigor over talent and resources
employee development, talent acquisition, staffing and succession plans. Develop a high performance team culture and capabilities by managing talent closely, developing next generation leaders and addressing performance concerns proactively
Lead continuous improvement efforts within area regularly to improve process and other efficiencies, resulting in tangible cost improvement for project deliveries and support activities
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline
5+ years' experience with running medium to large/complex projects or teams with multiple interactions and dependencies. People and team leadership & management
Ability to identify, attract, recruit and hire talent, and to build high performing teams
Ability to coach, mentor, and provide direct, timely performance feedback
experience setting direction, tracking progress, and ensuring accountability
Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
Ability to work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team. Good verbal and written communication skills
Ability to thrive in a flexible and fast-paced environment, including the ability to think big in a rapidly evolving technology space
Ability to lead effectively across multiple time zones and locations
Ability to successfully handle ambiguity
Experience in planning, implementation and support of business application components, including change and release management.
Ability to work hands on with team members to inspire and motivate all levels of staff towards both tactical and strategic delivery goals
Ability to drive change with external counterparties and vendors, managing and enhancing relationships and services provided
Ability to facilitate dialogue and retrospectives with a diverse group of stakeholders and to review feedback to drive continuous improvement in tools, practices and processes within the emerging enterprise SAvE standards at Schwab
Proven track record successfully supporting production support efforts using a DevOps/SAvE methodology
Ability to paint a holistic picture of environment health to technology and business partners leveraging proven strong communication skills, both written and verbal as well as strong presentation skills
Strong innovation, creativity, and problem-solving skills, including experience facilitating incident management and system recovery efforts
8+ Years of professional experience building and/or supporting distributed scalable enterprise-class applications using web technologies
experience should include supporting and developing applications for .Net or Java, HTML5, Javascript, as well experience with REST services and database programming
Agile Methodology knowledge and/or Scrum training or certification, with experience leading in an Agile delivery environment.
Strong technology affinity and experience, as well as attention to detail and the ability to design, execute and maintain strategic goals and metrics
Own end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions
Lead by example, care for your team and establish credibility with the quality of your and your team's technical execution
Manage on-call rotations across continents, using a follow-the-sun model
Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Schwab's services
Broad and deep knowledge of IT/software technology and trends, domain knowledge and experience in infrastructure support, application development, quality practices and database administration, including: client/server, web services, portal, middleware, operating systems, databases, networking, security and business intelligence
Experience working with dashboard / environment health display tooling
Experience transitioning platforms to cloud-ready
Shows a commitment to high ethical standards and integrity and demonstrates this through action
Inquisitive, analytical, a strategic thinker, proactive and solutions-oriented
High-energy, positive, entrepreneurial in spirit while goal-oriented and results-driven
Self-starter
takes initiative and can work independently
Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail
Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
Direct, plain-spoken
conveys a genuine/authentic demeanor
Nice to have:
Post-graduate degree or applicable certification
Expertise in problem solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems
3+ years' experience in Financial Services Industry a plus
What we offer:
Bonus or incentive opportunities
401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions