Principal Enterprise Architect: Modernization, Cloud & AI

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Sabbatical after 5 years

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Charles Schwab seeks an Architect Principal to lead enterprise-scale modernization and governance across mainframe, distributed systems, and cloud architectures. You will influence architecture direction across multiple business domains and guide legacy platform evolution toward modern, secure, scalable solutions.

This role blends business strategy with technology transformation, requiring senior leadership, governance discipline, and hands-on collaboration with product and engineering teams to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise application and platform architecture.
• Proven leadership in large-scale modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience in modern distributed, cloud, and AI architectures.
• Strong experience defining architecture standards and ensuring adherence through governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise-wide architecture leadership across domains and define multi-year roadmaps.
• Lead modernization initiatives spanning legacy systems, cloud adoption, and API strategies.
• Evaluate and guide AI strategies and reference architectures for enterprise use.
• Advance developer productivity through modern tooling, CI/CD, and AI-enabled practices.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture leadership

Application modernization patterns

AI strategies

Public cloud architectures

Architecture governance

CI/CD & DevSecOps for AI

MCP, API, event-driven architectures

Scalability of high-volume apps

Business Architecture familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

TOGAF

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Charles Schwab seeks an Architect Principal to lead enterprise-scale modernization and governance across mainframe, distributed systems, and cloud architectures. You will influence architecture direction across multiple business domains and guide legacy platform evolution toward modern, secure, scalable solutions.

This role blends business strategy with technology transformation, requiring senior leadership, governance discipline, and hands-on collaboration with product and engineering teams to