Director of Capacity Planning & AI Cloud Architecture

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off for vacation, volunteer,

Sabbatical after 5 years

Paid parental leave and family‑forming

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Schwab Technology Services seeks a director-level Principal Architect with Public Cloud and AI experience to scale capacity planning across Schwab. You will lead architecture decisions to ensure capacity, availability, and resiliency for critical applications in a regulated environment.

Under the CTO, you will drive capacity strategy for cloud adoption, acquisitions, integrations, and modernization efforts, collaborating with leaders across TOD, I&O, and data teams to enable enterprise-wide

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in CS, engineering, data science, or quantitative field.
• 10+ years in architecture/design of complex, scalable systems in regulated industries.
• 7+ years as solution/principal architect across diverse stacks.
• 5+ years designing scalable, high-performance systems.
• 3+ years cloud-native design (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• 2+ years with AI tools and AI-assisted development.
• 2+ years leading architecture centers of excellence.

Responsibilities

• Apply capacity planning to forecast demand and manage critical systems.
• Map key business transactions to capacity baselines and report risks.
• Provide design guidance for robust, scalable, highly available systems.
• Collaborate with KBT Owners, I&O, Cloud, SRE, STS, Data, BOET groups.
• Capture metrics for capacity assessment and translate to infrastructure needs.
• Scale capacity practices with AI and cloud capabilities across Schwab.

Skills

Architectural thinking

Leadership

Cloud-native design

AI tools

Data mining

Monitoring & alerting

Infrastructure as code

Education

B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a statistical or other quantitative field.

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Power BI

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Schwab Technology Services seeks a director-level Principal Architect with Public Cloud and AI experience to scale capacity planning across Schwab. You will lead architecture decisions to ensure capacity, availability, and resiliency for critical applications in a regulated environment.

Under the CTO, you will drive capacity strategy for cloud adoption, acquisitions, integrations, and modernization efforts, collaborating with leaders across TOD, I&O, and data teams to enable enterprise-wide