Senior Team Manager - Data Engineering
Company: Charles Schwab
Location: South Lake
Posted on: February 26, 2026
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Job Description:
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). As a Senior Manager of Data
Engineering, you’ll shape the technical direction of our enterprise
data ecosystem while leading a high performing engineering team.
This role sits within our Operational Data Exchange (ODX)
organization — a critical engine behind the insights, intelligence,
and scalable platforms that support major business areas across
Schwab, including Schwab Technology Services (STS), Treasury,
Audit, Corporate Tax, Risk, and Compliance. You’ll guide teams
through complex modernization initiatives, streamline and stabilize
core systems, and architect future state platforms that enable
client centricity, speed, and scale. If you thrive in fast paced
environments, embrace ambiguity, and enjoy building strong teams
and engineering foundations, this role is an opportunity to own
your tomorrow in a meaningful, high impact leadership position.
What You’ll Do As a Senior Manager and engineering lead, you’ll
drive both strategy and execution: • Provide strategic, technical,
and project leadership to software and data pipeline development •
Lead hands on engineering while mentoring team members at all
levels • Navigate cross functional communication to align product,
development, QA, operations, and business teams • Drive Agile
delivery, prioritization, and story decomposition to meet
organizational goals • Identify technology risks, dependencies, and
mitigation plans • Ensure delivery of high quality releases on time
and within budget • Oversee production support artifacts,
deployment processes, and smooth handoffs to support teams •
Collaborate with shared functions to improve automation,
application support, and deployment workflows • Cultivate open
feedback, accountability, and continuous improvement across the
engineering team What You Have You’ll bring deep technical
expertise, proven engineering leadership, and a passion for
building scalable, modern platforms. Required Qualifications •
Expertise in ETL development, Data Architecture, Data Modeling,
Data Quality, best practices, and exception handling • Proficiency
with SQL and Google Cloud technologies including BigQuery, Cloud
Storage, Dataflow, Composer, and Pub/Sub • Expertise in Informatica
/ IDMC. • Strong business analysis experience to translate
requirements into accurate data mapping • 12–15 years of data
engineering experience • 7 years of strategic project leadership in
a matrixed organization • Extensive experience building and
maturing teams at multiple levels • Strong understanding of Data
Warehouse concepts (star schema, slowly changing dimensions,
fact/dim modeling) and Operational Data Exchanges/Stores • Solid
understanding of data lifecycle, metadata management, and
governance standards • Ability to disagree, debate with data, and
commit to execution • Excellent verbal and written communication
for technical and non technical audiences • Bachelor’s or Master’s
degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field Preferred
Qualifications • Experience with corporate systems such as Workday,
Remedy Helix, Jira, Rally • Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and
Python • Experience supporting Treasury data needs (e.g.,
forecasting net interest revenue, liquidity/cash management,
financial statements) • Experience implementing event driven
architectures (e.g., Confluent Kafka) • Experience with data
visualization/reporting tools • Proficiency with developer tools
such as GitHub, Bamboo, Liquibase • Experience with cloud based
technologies (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure) • Ability to implement
cost effective, scalable solutions in fast paced, distributed
environments • 5 years in financial services In addition to the
salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive
opportunities. Why work for us? At Schwab, we’re committed to
empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our
purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development
means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference
in the finance industry. We offer a competitive benefits package to
our full-time employees that takes care of the whole you – both
today and in the future: • 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 • Paid parental leave and family building benefits •
Tuition reimbursement • Health, dental, and vision insurance
Keywords: Charles Schwab, Euless , Senior Team Manager - Data Engineering, IT / Software / Systems , South Lake, Texas
