Senior Manager, Systems Engineer (PL)
Your Opportunity
Your opportunity
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. Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.
Our Opportunity:
This Sr. Manager will directly manage a team of technologists who support all Schwab corporate office locations, including service centers, remote corporate offices, and edge colocation facilities. The team provides comprehensive technology space management including hardware implementation, inventory management, technology space planning, asset tracking, and remote hands. Technologists are the primary interface with infrastructure platform owners, and Corporate Real Estate / Facilities for all environmental issues within technology spaces. The team is responsible for managing all technology-related change activities with regard to building expansions and new building construction projects. The team is also responsible for the secure coordination and disposal of all Schwab technology assets.
What you’ll do:
•Candidate will be directly responsible for leading a team of technologists who manage all physical technology hardware assets within corporate and colo technology environments
• Responsible for budgetary forecasts
• Manage IT asset audit-related examination evidence
• Vendor management and basic contracts administration
• Participate in project-related programming interviews across all technology platforms and facilities management groups to identify, interpret and translate IT hardware requirements from conceptual stage through entire physical IT asset lifecycle
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT related field, and/or equivalent technical experience
- Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) or Data Center Design Consultant (DCDC) certifications desired
- Proficiency with DCIM software - preferably Nlyte.
- Experience with data center space design and deployment of technology components
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
- Solid understanding of mechanical and electrical systems as they relate to technology spaces
- Experience with the application of Kaizen or LEAN principles
Preferred Qualifications:
- Drives data-based decisions and optimizes performance through strategic insight
- Delivers timely updates and effective communication with others involved in a project or effort
- Identifies learning opportunities to boost organizational knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Creates opportunities for others to assume meaningful responsibilities
- Identifies and resolves challenges with a forward-looking approach
- Creates and sustains a supportive atmosphere that integrates diverse perspectives into decision-making
- Leads the collaboration of diverse perspectives to work together as a team
- Proactively sets expectations, monitors performance, and offers constructive feedback
- Verbally delivers precise, persuasive communication for productive outcomes
- Upholds high standards of reliability, trust, and subject matter authority
- Delivers impactful messages that persuade diverse audiences
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package 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
What you are good at
What you have
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT related field, and/or equivalent technical experience
- Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) or Data Center Design Consultant (DCDC) certifications desired
- Proficiency with DCIM software - preferably Nlyte.
- Experience with data center space design and deployment of technology components
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
- Solid understanding of mechanical and electrical systems as they relate to technology spaces
- Experience with the application of Kaizen or LEAN principles
Preferred Qualifications:
- Drives data-based decisions and optimizes performance through strategic insight
- Delivers timely updates and effective communication with others involved in a project or effort
- Identifies learning opportunities to boost organizational knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Creates opportunities for others to assume meaningful responsibilities
- Identifies and resolves challenges with a forward-looking approach
- Creates and sustains a supportive atmosphere that integrates diverse perspectives into decision-making
- Leads the collaboration of diverse perspectives to work together as a team
- Proactively sets expectations, monitors performance, and offers constructive feedback
- Verbally delivers precise, persuasive communication for productive outcomes
- Upholds high standards of reliability, trust, and subject matter authority
- Delivers impactful messages that persuade diverse audiences
Why Schwab?
At Schwab, “Own Your Tomorrow” embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees unleash their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. We’re a modern financial services firm that stands apart from the industry, where you can go as far as your ambition takes you.
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