Solutions Architect - Brokerage Services

Your opportunity

At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and a commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region.

Core Brokerage Services Engineering (CBSE) enables Schwab to fulfill its custodial and clearing obligations as a Broker-Dealer and enables clients to invest strategically and achieve their financial goals.  The Solutions Architect is a key technical leader in the CBSE organization, ensuring that Schwab India software development and engineering teams coalesce with established and evolving technology governance, standards, practices, and strategy as well as regulatory standards and requirements.  This role requires a strong background in leading end-to-end architecture direction for high-volume heterogenous technology platforms as well as hands-on experience throughout the software development lifecycle.  It’s an exciting time to join CBSE as it endeavors to modernize its platforms while incrementally delivering new features and capabilities to Schwab’s clients and growing businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with peer platform architects, enterprise architects, and software development and engineering teams to develop and maintain cohesive current and target state software architecture documents and reference implementations
• Balance long-term thinking with crafting architecture increments that deliver business value near-term, guiding technical leads in creating these designs
• Mentor software developers and engineers to leverage established patterns and software engineering best practices and adhere to policies and standards
• Champion end-to-end observability, monitoring and alerting, adherence to service level indicators and objectives, and operational excellence (24x7 availability)
• Identify and address scalability, latency, resiliency, and performance improvement opportunities
• Lead architecture strategy sessions and engage hands-on throughout the software delivery lifecycle to resolve challenges
• Remain informed on industry trends in financial technology and apply this knowledge to drive innovation within the organization

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years of hands-on full stack software development experience across diverse technologies such as .NET/C#, Java/Spring framework, COBOL, Python, RabbitMQ/Kafka/IBM MQ, SOAP/REST services, and modern front-end frameworks like Angular/React
• Knowledge of both SQL (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, DB2) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Aerospike) with extensive experience in designing and optimizing data solutions
• 5+ years hands-on expertise architecting, designing and integrating components, and implementing large-scale solutions
• Experience architecting and building private and public cloud-based or cloud-ready applications (e.g., PCF, GCP)
• Proven ability to handle fast-paced agile delivery environment, prioritize competing deadlines, and contribute to multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrable ability to help others visualize application design and system integration patterns
• Demonstratable proficiency in business analysis, problem-solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting skills