AI Integration Architect - Enterprise AI & API Architecture

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Hybrid work

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking an AI Integration Architect to shape how AI capabilities securely connect across Schwab’s technology ecosystem. You will lead architecture for agentic AI solutions, connecting agents with enterprise APIs, cloud services, identity platforms, and LLMs.

You will evaluate technologies, establish standards and governance, and address complex security, resiliency, and scalability challenges while aligning with long-term business value.

Qualifications

• 10+ years addressing operational and non-functional architecture requirements including scalability, performance, maintainability, resilience, recovery, security, and privacy.
• 5+ years of cloud technologies and API management experience.
• 5+ years delivering services at scale on cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• 3+ years addressing OWASP Top 10 API security risks.
• 1+ years applying OWASP guidance for LLM and agentic applications to mitigate risks like prompt injection and data leakage.
• Architecting highly available agentic AI applications with fault tolerance, observability, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
• Designing secure, scalable AI integration patterns spanning agent-to-agent communication, enterprise APIs, SaaS platforms, cloud services, middleware, AI/gateway APIs, and LLMs.
• Strong knowledge of OAuth/OIDC, identity propagation, least-privilege access, traffic management, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and service mesh technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for highly available agentic AI solutions connecting AI agents with enterprise APIs, cloud services, identity platforms, and LLMs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and establish architecture standards and governance informing governance across Schwab’s AI ecosystem.
• Solve complex integration, security, resiliency, and scalability challenges in AI enablement across the enterprise.
• Think strategically to connect complex systems and balance long-term architecture with near-term business value.
• Influence decisions across architects, engineers, product teams, and business leaders to shape enterprise AI patterns.

Skills

Operational architecture

Cloud technologies

API management

Google Cloud Platform

OWASP API security

LLM security considerations

Agentic AI architectures

Security & privacy

Kubernetes & service mesh

Tools

OAuth/OIDC

Kubernetes

API gateways

Cloud platforms

Job description

Charles Schwab is seeking an AI Integration Architect to shape how AI capabilities securely connect across Schwab’s technology ecosystem. You will lead architecture for agentic AI solutions, connecting agents with enterprise APIs, cloud services, identity platforms, and LLMs.

You will evaluate technologies, establish standards and governance, and address complex security, resiliency, and scalability challenges while aligning with long-term business value.