Director, Technology Architect

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

At Schwab, the Core Technology Services (CTS) Architecture and Risk team works with multiple business functional areas to build highly available, scalable, secure and reliable platforms, enabling reps and clients to experience our service excellence.  We are seeking a thought leader to join our highly energetic architecture team to design, guide, and govern the implementation and maintenance of our business solutions. This role will be responsible for helping to develop our architecture strategy (blueprints) and to modernize our existing platforms, while mitigating risk and keeping our data and intellectual property secure.  This will be accomplished by collaborating with enterprise technology governance teams to ensure that the implementations are adhering to the Schwab technology standards, identifying potential risks and building plans to remediate the risks, and guiding development teams to build solutions as per the reference architecture.

This will be a great opportunity to work with highly talented technologists who bring a lot of energy, focus and fresh ideas that support our mission to provide value by seeing the world “Through Clients' Eyes”.

What you’re good at 

• Architecting end-to-end solutions including network, application and data using cloud and vendor technologies
• Developing architecture artifacts and working with enterprise technology partners to get governance approvals
• Leading design sessions and guiding development teams to build highly available, scalable and reliable platforms and products
• Big picture thinking and formulating pragmatic solutions that align with organization’s strategy
• Crafting 3-5 years technology blueprints and roadmaps to build next generation solutions
• Translating complex ideas, technology, and programs into language senior management can relate to and performs as a key influencer on technical decisions that affect the business on a long-term basis
• Partnering with business stakeholders to drive architecture strategy that aligns with business strategy
• Identify, assess, and manage architecture and design risks
• Collaborating, influencing, and building consensus through constructive relationships and effective listening
• Bringing a passion to stay on top of tech trends, emerging technologies, and participate in internal technology communities

What you have

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years’ experience in designing and building applications in highly regulated environments
• 10+ years’ experience in Object Oriented Programming preferably Java, C#
• 8+ years’ experience in architecting applications on distributed computing platforms
• 5+ years’ experience in cloud technologies such as GCP, AWS
• Proven experience in networking and telecommunication technologies including carrier VoIP and WAN services
• Ability to work with modern and emerging technologies or cloud solutions
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools like Bitbucket, Bamboo, Github, Jenkins, Airflow, Cloud build
• Sound knowledge in data and analytics space
• Demonstrated experience with omnichannel integrations (Voice, Chat and Digital) including real time patterns such as API and event streaming
• Working experience of enterprise SaaS solutions
• Functional knowledge of financial banking, stock brokerage or insurance domains is preferred
• Critical-thinking and strong problem-solving skills with ability to analyze ambiguous, and constantly evolving requirements
• Cross-functional teams collaboration including engineering, product, business and executive leadership
• Attitude that fosters a culture of collaboration and teamwork
• Strong knowledge in agile development techniques

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.