Director, Blockchain Platform Architect – Technology Incubation – R&D
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$219k - $274k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the target-state architecture and technical roadmap for blockchain and digital asset platforms, including platform components, service boundaries, integration patterns, APIs, data models, and operational controls.
- Design secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for experimentation, pilots, and production use.
- Evaluate blockchain protocols, node infrastructure, custody patterns, smart contract frameworks, interoperability models, and blockchain data access strategies.
- Guide engineering implementation, review designs, resolve technical tradeoffs, and establish reusable platform patterns.
- Partner with security, risk, legal, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams to address enterprise controls, regulatory expectations, and operational resilience.
- Create architecture documentation, reference models, decision records, design standards, and graduation criteria.
- Advise technology and executive stakeholders on architecture choices, business value, risks, investment needs, and adoption paths.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field is required; an advanced degree is a plus.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform delivery, or complex technology initiatives.
- Strong foundation in modern architectures, cloud-native development, engineering best practices, enterprise platforms, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven patterns, observability, resiliency, and DevSecOps practices.
- Deep understanding of blockchain fundamentals, distributed ledger technologies, consensus mechanisms, cryptography, smart contracts, tokenization, node operations, custody models, and digital asset transaction flows.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response readiness.
- Ability to guide technical decisions without being the primary implementer and to produce practical architecture artifacts and implementation guidance.
- Ability to influence and communicate effectively with engineering, architecture, product, risk, legal, compliance, security, business, and senior leadership stakeholders.
Benefits
- The role is expected to work on site in the specified location(s).
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
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About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.