Senior Blockchain Platform Architect — Enterprise-Scale & Secure

Charles Schwab; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab’s Technology Services (STS) Research & Development team is seeking a Blockchain Platform Architect to define enterprise-grade blockchain and digital asset platform architecture. This role partners with engineering, security, risk, legal, and product teams to translate opportunities into secure, scalable designs.

Reporting to the Director of Technology, you will move capabilities from prototype to enterprise adoption while balancing innovation with Schwab’s security and resiliency

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field (advanced degree a plus).
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering delivering platforms or complex technology initiatives.
• Strong foundation in modern architectures, cloud-native development, and engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries and collaborate effectively with Product, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Security, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills—able to align leaders, and convey technical tradeoffs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture and technical roadmap for blockchain and digital asset platform capabilities, including platform components, service boundaries, integration patterns, APIs, data models, and operational controls.
• Design secure, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that support experimentation, pilot delivery, and production use.
• Evaluate blockchain protocols, node infrastructure, custody patterns, smart contract frameworks, interoperability models, and blockchain data access strategies.
• Partner with engineering teams to guide implementation, review designs, resolve complex technical tradeoffs, and establish reusable platform patterns.
• Collaborate with security, risk, legal, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure platform designs meet enterprise controls, regulatory expectations, defense-in-depth principles, and operational resilience requirements.
• Define architecture documentation, reference models, decision records, design standards, and graduation criteria needed to move capabilities from prototype to sustainable ownership.
• Serve as a technical advisor to the Director of Technology and executive stakeholders by translating blockchain architecture choices into business value, risk implications, investment needs, and adoption paths.

Skills

Blockchain architecture

Cloud-native development

Distributed systems

Security best practices

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Job description

Charles Schwab’s Technology Services (STS) Research & Development team is seeking a Blockchain Platform Architect to define enterprise-grade blockchain and digital asset platform architecture. This role partners with engineering, security, risk, legal, and product teams to translate opportunities into secure, scalable designs.

Reporting to the Director of Technology, you will move capabilities from prototype to enterprise adoption while balancing innovation with Schwab’s security and resiliency