Director, Architect Principal - Capacity Planning
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$206k - $249k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise application and infrastructure capacity-planning strategy for critical systems and complex transformation initiatives.
- Map key business transactions and infrastructure components, assess capacity baselines, and project demand against current and proposed capacity.
- Translate capacity and scalability issues into business performance measures, risks, and actionable insights.
- Provide architectural guidance and standards for scalable, reliable, highly available, resilient, and efficient systems.
- Partner with infrastructure and operations, cloud, SRE, data, business operations, and enterprise transformation organizations.
- Scale capacity-planning practices and strengthen the architecture community of practice through AI and cloud capabilities, reusable patterns, and frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, statistics, or another quantitative field.
- 10+ years of experience with application architecture, design, development, hosting, and maintenance of complex scalable systems in highly regulated industries.
- 7+ years as a solution architect or principal architect using broad technical stacks such as the Python data science stack or full Java development stack.
- 7+ years of database experience, including technologies such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
- 5+ years architecting systems for optimized scaling and performance, influencing organizational decisions, and working with analytics, visualization, monitoring, alerting, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- 5+ years performing capacity and scalability incident analysis, root-cause analysis, business-impact analysis, and application health assessments.
- 3+ years designing cloud-native systems with GCP, AWS, or Azure, including containerized and event-driven applications, deployment strategies, and security and performance tuning.
- 3+ years curating architectural principles, guidance, and governance.
- 2+ years using AI tools and technologies, including AI-assisted software development.
- 2+ years leading an architecture center of excellence.
- Preferred qualifications include strategic business judgment, analytical insight, executive influence, cross-group communication, mentoring, innovation, ethical conduct, and the ability to shape enterprise direction.
Benefits
- The role is intended to be performed onsite because Schwab emphasizes in-office collaboration.
- The position is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDatadogGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaMatplotlibMicrosoft SQL ServerNumPyPandasPostgreSQLPythonscikit-learn
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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.