Director, Principal Platform Architect
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$206k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define target-state architectures, reusable patterns, and transition roadmaps for mission-critical enterprise platforms.
- Lead architecture decisions involving resiliency, batch processing, enterprise hosting, and platform modernization.
- Assess availability, recoverability, failure isolation, dependency management, observability, scalability, and operational readiness.
- Guide modernization of enterprise batch environments, including orchestration, scheduling, dependencies, restart and recovery, and monitoring.
- Evaluate workload placement and hosting strategies across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, container, virtualized, and managed-platform environments.
- Identify applications of AI to platform engineering and operations, including automation, observability, incident response, capacity management, operational analytics, architecture decision support, and developer productivity.
- Define platform capabilities supporting responsible AI adoption, including secure infrastructure, data access, integration, resiliency, governance, observability, and lifecycle management.
- Lead cross-functional architecture reviews, translate technical tradeoffs into recommendations, and guide solutions through implementation and operational ownership.
- Mentor architects and engineers and create reusable guidance for the broader architecture practice.
Requirements
- 12 or more years of progressive technology experience, including significant enterprise or solution architecture experience.
- Demonstrated experience architecting mission-critical platforms with availability, recovery, observability, failure isolation, auditability, and operational ownership.
- Deep experience in enterprise resiliency, including high availability, disaster recovery, dependency analysis, resilience testing, and operational readiness.
- Experience with enterprise batch architecture, scheduling, orchestration, dependencies, restart and recovery, monitoring, and modernization.
- Broad knowledge of enterprise hosting technologies, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud, hybrid platforms, containers, virtualization, networking, storage, and identity.
- Experience applying AI capabilities to platform engineering, automation, resiliency, architecture, and operations.
- Understanding of infrastructure, data, integration, security, governance, observability, and lifecycle capabilities for production AI solutions.
- Experience developing architecture roadmaps addressing legacy constraints, operational dependencies, technology risk, and modernization priorities.
- Ability to lead complex architecture decisions from concept through implementation and communicate strategies, risks, and recommendations to executive audiences.
- Strong stakeholder-management, conflict-resolution, independent decision-making, structured-thinking, and communication skills.
- Preferred: financial-services or other regulated-industry experience and large-scale platform modernization, infrastructure migration, or resiliency-program experience.
- Preferred: knowledge of public-cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and policy automation.
- Preferred: advanced certification in cloud, infrastructure, security, resiliency, data, or AI.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- On-site work is expected in the specified location(s).
- 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.