What you have

Strategic Leadership and Global Partnership
- India Site Leadership: Establish and lead thinkorswim Technology's first India footprint, including operating model, organization design, and phased scaling plans up to 50 professionals.
- Enterprise Alignment: Serve as the primary India liaison across product, architecture, operations, risk, and compliance teams to ensure clear priorities, transparency, and cross-functional alignment.
- Technical Domain Representation: Adequately understand and communicate key technical concepts in order management and trading to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Delivery Execution and Operational Excellence
- End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Lead end-to-end delivery for specific modules in the TOS ecosystem, ensuring predictability across scope, timeline and quality
- Engineering Excellence: Drive up-to-date SDLC practices, CI/CD discipline, observability, release governance, and reliability engineering for sustainable throughput.
- Risk and Controls: Ensure adherence to security, privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements within a regulated financial-services environment.

Talent and Organization Development
- Talent Strategy: Build, develop, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams; implement hiring, onboarding, and succession strategies.
- Leadership Development: Coach managers and technical leaders; establish clear accountability, performance expectations, and growth pathways.
- Culture and Engagement: Foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture grounded in collaboration, ownership, and client-focused outcomes

Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering and technology delivery, including 10+ years in people leadership roles.




- Demonstrated experience in a large, global Financial Services organization.
- Proven software delivery leadership in highly connected ecosystems with multiple dependencies across platforms and teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level reporting and influence in a matrixed environment.

Technical and Domain Qualifications
- Experience with event-driven integration patterns such as asynchronous messaging, pub/sub architectures, and inter-system communication using APIs, queues, or messaging middleware. Java experience is strongly preferred.
- Practical knowledge of distributed systems, including high-availability design, resiliency patterns, and dependency management across tightly integrated platforms.
- Fundamental understanding of equities and options trading, including order lifecycle, market data, and operational dependencies.
- Experience working in regulated environments where auditability, resiliency, and control effectiveness are critical.

Our base benefits, wellbeing, and total rewards include:

- Competitive compensation and retirement programs including Employee Provident Fund (EPF), Gratuity, and optional National Pension System (NPS) contributions
- Robust Paid Time Off, including annual/privilege leave, sick and casual leave, public holidays, maternity/paternity leave, and more
- Education assistance for continued learning to help you grow
- Comprehensive medical insurance with Outpatient Department (OPD) services, including vaccination, pharmacy, dental, and vision coverage
- Annual reimbursement for health check-ups and mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Childcare (creche) reimbursement for eligible employees
- Transportation and meal benefits that support your day-to-day work
- Group life, personal accident, and critical illness insurance

📌 Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Lead (PL) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Charles Schwab
📍 Hyderabad