Senior Principal Data Architect: AI/ML & Cloud Strategy

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Sabbatical after 5 years

Job summary

Charles Schwab's Schwab Technology Services seeks a Principal Data Architect to shape enterprise data architecture across data management, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud platforms. As a senior individual contributor, you translate business priorities into target-state architectures, roadmaps, and reusable patterns while guiding delivery.

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, and governance teams, review designs for enterprise alignment, mentor peers, and advocate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of enterprise data architecture experience, 3+ years in modern data architecture.
• Experience with data management, modeling, warehouses & BI, cloud platforms, batch/streaming integration, analytics, data science, and AI/ML enablement.
• Experience developing domain- and ecosystem-level target states, roadmaps, blueprints, and reusable patterns.
• Experience with hyperscale cloud data platforms; Google Cloud experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic architecture for enterprise data, analytics, AI/ML, client data, and self-service capabilities.
• Create target-state architectures, reference architectures, architecture decision records, integration and data-flow designs, data models, standards, and roadmaps.
• Lead or contribute to architecture for complex, high-impact, cross-domain initiatives.
• Evaluate alternatives across value, risk, cost, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Guide use of Google Cloud data services (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Vertex AI, BigQuery ML, Dataplex) aligned with strategy.
• Review designs for alignment with enterprise direction, governance, security, privacy, and data lifecycle requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, duplication, and debt; recommend practical alternatives.
• Partner with business, product, engineering, platform, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and other teams to drive outcomes.
• Communicate architecture vision and progress to diverse audiences.
• Mentor architects and engineers and publish reusable patterns.

Skills

Strategic architecture

Stakeholder influence

Cloud architecture

Data governance

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Eng/IS/Data Science

Tools

Google Cloud

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Dataplex

Cloud SQL

BigQuery ML

Job description

Charles Schwab's Schwab Technology Services seeks a Principal Data Architect to shape enterprise data architecture across data management, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud platforms. As a senior individual contributor, you translate business priorities into target-state architectures, roadmaps, and reusable patterns while guiding delivery.

You will partner with business, product, engineering, security, and governance teams, review designs for enterprise alignment, mentor peers, and advocate