Senior Enterprise Architect - Platform & Modernization

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Sabbatical after 5 years

Paid parental leave & family building

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Schwab Technology Services, RBCT, seeks a Chief Architect to provide senior architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of applications and modernization initiatives. You will shape long-term architectural vision for cross-enterprise platforms, aligning with Schwab’s technology strategy and business goals.

You will guide modernization, drive governance, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, mentoring engineers and influencing decision-making across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead complex, enterprise-scale architectural initiatives across multiple teams or domains.
• Experience delivering solution architecture for highly complex programs with multiple systems and technologies.
• Experience ensuring modernization strategies, blueprints, and governance align with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture initiatives across RBCT domains and cross-enterprise platforms.
• Guide modernization efforts while aligning technology decisions with risk, cost, and business value.
• Mentor engineers and foster a pragmatic, scalable, well-governed architecture culture.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Strategic thinking

Portfolio governance

Cloud modernization

Executive communication

Java/.Net

SQL/NoSQL

APIs design

Kubernetes

Containerization

Tools

Kubernetes

Containerization

API design

Job description

Schwab Technology Services, RBCT, seeks a Chief Architect to provide senior architectural leadership across a broad portfolio of applications and modernization initiatives. You will shape long-term architectural vision for cross-enterprise platforms, aligning with Schwab’s technology strategy and business goals.

You will guide modernization, drive governance, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, mentoring engineers and influencing decision-making across distributed teams.