Director, Designated Brokerage Services Technology (PL)

Charles Schwab Inc.•Southlake, TX

1d•$241,000 - $289,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Software Engineering, Designated Brokerage Services (DBS) Technology leads the strategy, delivery, modernization, reliability, and support of Schwab’s mission-critical Designated Broker Platform. The platform helps corporate clients meet regulatory and code-of-ethics obligations by monitoring and controlling employee personal trading while providing employees access to Schwab’s brokerage experience. Its capabilities include real-time trade restrictions, Schwab Trade Rules®, ADDLink for account linking and delinking, compliance data feeds, and employee monitoring. It also supports trade restrictions across Stock Plan Services, Retirement Business Services, Personal Choice Retirement Accounts, and other Schwab offerings. The director partners with product, business, risk, compliance, trading, order management, account, and data technology teams, and leads a multi-team engineering organization. The role requires strategic leadership as well as a hands-on, client- and control-focused approach. The position is intended to be performed on site in the specified location(s). The director will develop a multi-year technology strategy that balances client commitments, regulatory changes, new capabilities, scalability, and platform health; ensure accurate, highly available, low-latency, auditable trade restriction enforcement; and scale the platform for increased trade volumes, client growth, accounts, and new business capabilities. The role also drives resilient production support, incident management, observability, reliability engineering, and improvements to corporate client and employee experiences. The leader develops engineering talent and manages key vendor, third-party compliance platform, and internal stakeholder relationships.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
15+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in leadership and 5+ years leading people leaders.
Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and event-driven, real-time architectures.
Experience leading software development managers, architects, platform engineers, and technical leads.
Proven experience building scalable, highly available, low-latency enterprise applications, preferably within financial services, brokerage, trading, order management, or securities operations.
Experience delivering regulated, control-critical systems requiring strong security, data integrity, and auditability.
Experience with high-volume integrations, APIs, batch data feeds, and external partners.
Strong leadership, communication, influencing, operational reliability, governance, and incident-management capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience with designated brokerage, employee trade monitoring, compliance surveillance, or pre-trade restriction platforms.
Knowledge of SEC and FINRA requirements related to employee trading and compliance controls.
Familiarity with order management, trade lifecycle, account and securities reference data, workplace financial services, stock plan, or retirement platforms.
Experience leveraging automation and AI to improve engineering productivity, operations, or client workflows.
Demonstrated ability to influence executives, build partnerships, solve complex problems, and lead through change.
Proven success attracting, developing, coaching, and retaining high-performing engineering teams while fostering ownership, accountability, innovation, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery, reliability, and support of the Designated Broker Platform, including Schwab Trade Rules®, ADDLink, compliance data feeds, and employee monitoring capabilities.
Develop and execute a multi-year technology strategy balancing client commitments, regulatory changes, new capabilities, scalability, and platform health.
Ensure real-time trade restriction enforcement is accurate, highly available, low-latency, auditable, and supported by strong controls.
Scale the platform for increased trade volumes, client growth, accounts, and new business capabilities while improving operational efficiency.
Deliver technology solutions supporting new products, asset classes, account structures, and regulatory requirements.
Partner with enterprise trading, order management, account, reference data, Compliance, Risk, and Audit teams to manage dependencies, data integrity, governance, and controls.
Drive resilient production support, incident management, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
Improve corporate client and employee experiences across onboarding, account linking, data delivery, and self-service capabilities.
Lead talent, performance, and organizational development across engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and production support teams.
Manage critical vendor, third-party compliance platform, and internal stakeholder relationships.