Director, Bank Platform Architecture & Strategy

Charles Schwab; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and sabbatical benefits

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Director of Bank Platform Business Architecture to lead a team of system analysts translating product strategy into integrated designs for deposit-product growth and core banking modernization.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic architecture, and collaboration across Product, Technology, and Operations to deliver complex transformations in a multi-location environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in business systems analysis, business architecture, solution design, technology delivery or a related discipline.
• Experience managing requirements for multiple large, complex and cross-functional projects with emphasis on systems, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments.
• 5+ years of people management experience including recruiting, coaching, talent and career development, and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing system analysts supporting the growth of deposit products, platform enhancements, and modernization of core banking capabilities.
• Hire and onboard System Analyst talent, create development plans, provide timely feedback, and build bench strength for a growing organization.
• Build a strong business architecture and systems analyst practice that works with business and technology partners to interpret and disseminate project vision, develop high level business requirements and acceptance criteria, produce platform impact assessments, and maintain stakeholder engagement.
• Define and maintain Bank Platform business architecture documentation, including capability maps, business components, process flows, service and system inventories, and reusable solution patterns
• Translate product strategy and business needs into integrated capability requirements, business rules, process models, system requirements, and solution designs
• Lead cross-platform impact assessments to identify affected systems, data, integrations, processes, controls, vendors, dependencies, and operational teams
• Align System Analyst assignments and capacity to business priorities, delivery readiness, and employee development opportunities.
• Coordinate closely with our platform intake team to develop and share project vision, initial feature and epic breakouts, integration points, key use case scenarios and impacted user groups.
• Help lead development of strategic vision for Bank Platforms in partnership with technical architects by identifying opportunities to reuse, extend, consolidate or modernize existing capabilities
• Work with technology partners to maintain a software service and business component inventory for the platform and related systems
• Build trusted partnerships across Product Management, Bank Technology, Operations, Risk, and other enterprise teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Business architecture

Systems analysis

Requirements management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Agile / Scrum

Communication skills

JIRA knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Office

Visio

Job description

Charles Schwab is seeking a Director of Bank Platform Business Architecture to lead a team of system analysts translating product strategy into integrated designs for deposit-product growth and core banking modernization.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic architecture, and collaboration across Product, Technology, and Operations to deliver complex transformations in a multi-location environment.