Senior Platform Architect – Enterprise Resilience & AI

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and sabbatical after 5+1

Parental leave and family building

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Director, Principal Platform Architect to shape resilient, scalable enterprise platforms. Define target-state architectures, guide major decisions, and translate strategy into practical roadmaps with measurable outcomes.

Experience in resiliency, batch processing, hosting platforms, and applied AI is essential. The role demands executive communication, cross-functional influence, and leadership of architecture reviews toward modernizing critical environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive technology experience in enterprise or solution architecture.
• Experience architecting mission-critical platforms with defined availability, recovery, observability, failure isolation, auditability, and ownership.
• Deep enterprise resiliency experience including high availability and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architectures and roadmaps for mission-critical platforms.
• Lead architecture decisions across resiliency, hosting, and platform modernization.
• Assess platforms for availability, recoverability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Guide modernization of enterprise batch environments and workload orchestration.
• Evaluate hosting strategies across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI to platform engineering and operations.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Platform modernization

Cloud architecture

AI in platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Advanced cloud/AI certification

Tools

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Observability

Job description

Charles Schwab is seeking a Director, Principal Platform Architect to shape resilient, scalable enterprise platforms. Define target-state architectures, guide major decisions, and translate strategy into practical roadmaps with measurable outcomes.

Experience in resiliency, batch processing, hosting platforms, and applied AI is essential. The role demands executive communication, cross-functional influence, and leadership of architecture reviews toward modernizing critical environments.