AI Integration Architect - Application Architecture
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$200k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide architecture leadership for highly available and resilient agentic AI applications.
- Design secure, scalable integration patterns connecting AI agents, enterprise APIs, SaaS platforms, cloud services, identity platforms, middleware, gateways, and large language models.
- Establish reusable architecture standards, governance, and technology strategy for enterprise AI integration.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and address integration, security, resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational challenges.
- Partner with architects, engineers, product teams, business leaders, and executive leaders to influence strategic decisions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience addressing operational and non-functional architecture requirements including scalability, performance, maintainability, resilience, recovery, security, and privacy.
- 5+ years of experience with cloud technologies and API management, including enterprise API management and AI gateway platforms.
- 5+ years of experience delivering services at scale on cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
- 3+ years of experience identifying and mitigating OWASP Top 10 API security risks.
- 1+ years of experience applying OWASP guidance to mitigate risks in LLM and agentic applications, including prompt injection, sensitive information disclosure, excessive agency, tool misuse, and identity or privilege abuse.
- Experience architecting highly available and resilient agentic AI applications using fault tolerance, observability, workload isolation, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
- Strong knowledge of delegated authorization, OAuth/OIDC, identity propagation, least-privilege access, traffic management, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise architecture, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, executive communication, innovation governance, and experience in financial services, investment management, or securities markets.
Benefits
- The role is expected to work on site in the specified location or locations.
- 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.