Director, Architect Principal - Workplace Services Engineering
Charles Schwab3 days ago
Base Salary
$221k - $252k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve current- and future-state architectures in partnership with platform architects, enterprise architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders.
- Lead modernization of monolithic and tightly coupled systems into scalable, modular, API-first, cloud-native, and event-driven architectures.
- Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, design patterns, engineering guardrails, Architecture Decision Records, and governance processes.
- Improve system stability, availability, observability, performance, disaster recovery readiness, resilience, and operational excellence with Engineering, SRE, and Operations teams.
- Translate technical strategies into business outcomes, influence investment decisions, secure executive alignment, and communicate modernization risks and progress.
- Champion DevSecOps, automation, cloud engineering, platform engineering, AI-assisted development, and modern software delivery practices.
- Provide technical leadership and coaching to architects, engineering leaders, and technical leads while developing reusable modernization frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- 15+ years of progressive technology experience, including a minimum of 5+ years in a Solution, Enterprise, or Principal Architect capacity within financial services.
- Experience leading large-scale legacy modernization, including decomposing Oracle/PLSQL or mainframe systems into cloud-native microservices, event-driven, and API-first architectures.
- Hands-on expertise with Java, Spring Boot, relational and NoSQL/distributed databases, Kafka, MQ, cloud platforms, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, cloud-native design patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code for regulated financial workloads.
- Knowledge of financial services regulatory and compliance frameworks including SOX, SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA recordkeeping, IRS Sections 409A/423/422, GDPR/CCPA, and PCI-DSS.
- Demonstrated leadership in enterprise architecture governance, standards, reference architectures, and delivery of scalable, resilient, highly available mission-critical systems.
- Proven practical expertise in observability, resilience engineering, capacity planning, resilience patterns, deployment strategies, and production operations.
- Experience using AI tools to address reliability problems such as anomaly detection, incident triage, noise reduction, postmortem acceleration, capacity forecasting, or auto-remediation.
- Preferred qualifications include TOGAF, AWS/Azure Professional Architect, CISSP, or SAFe Architect certifications; equity compensation or wealth-platform experience; AI/GenAI modernization exposure; DDD, event-driven architecture, CQRS, and strangler-fig experience; modern data architecture experience; leadership of distributed cross-functional teams; capital markets knowledge; and vendor or strategic partner management experience.
Benefits
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
- The selected candidate is expected to work on site in the specified location(s).
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache KafkaAWSAzureDatabricksDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLSnowflakeSpring Boot
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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.