Strategic Initiatives and Cloud Architect

Charles Schwab; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 152,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Strategic Initiatives and Cloud Architect. This role involves driving innovative solutions and architectures for critical projects, focusing on Cloud and emerging AI technologies. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in application architecture and be self-starters with a passion for technology.

Benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time for vacation

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in enterprise application architecture.
• 5 years of experience with cloud solutions.
• Strong background in software engineering and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of complex programs.
• Drive architecture strategy involving Cloud and Gen AI.
• Collaborate across teams to align technology with business vision.

Skills

Application Architecture

Cloud Solutions

AI Technologies

Software Engineering

Leadership

Education

Public Cloud Architecture Certification

Tools

Cloud Technologies

Gen AI

Cryptocurrencies

Job description

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Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

As a Strategic Initiatives and Cloud Architect, you will play a key role in building products that help customers learn, explore, and make life-impacting moves on their paths to achieving their financial and life goals. This position is part of the Office of the CTO organization and is responsible for driving the architecture, strategy and delivery for the most critical and impactful programs at Schwab. The Strategic Initiatives Architects are part of an Elite team of senior architects with deep expertise in end-to-end application architecture of highly resilient applications and cloud and AI technologies, helping shape the future direction for Schwab. You'll work closely with business, product, and technology partners to translate results-oriented business vision and requirements into innovative solution architectures that enables Schwab's highest priority objectives while aligning with our technology strategy.

You will be responsible for defining and implementing architecture and strategies that enable Schwab to scale effectively, adopt emerging technologies such as Gen AI and cryptocurrencies and digital assets and deliver innovative solution. In this role you will set standards, establish patterns and influence technical direction across multiple technology domains to support enterprise agility, new capability and growth. The ideal candidate is a proactive, self-starter who enjoys and thrives on leading and connecting people and technology to solve sophisticated problems at-scale. You will be the Lead Architect for Schwab’s most critical initiatives, integrating Public Cloud, SaaS and multiple technologies across several teams. If you have a passion for technology, strategic long-term thinking, balanced with crafting architecture increments that enable value for customers now, this role is for you.

This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of Schwab’s multi-year technology evolution and drive the development of financial solutions that help our clients succeed. Your work will directly impact strategic decision-making, enhance client experiences and help share the future of Schwab’s technology ecosystem.

What you are good at

• Be able to successfully Lead, Design, architect and deliver some of the most critical and complex programs for the company including Cloud and Gen AI
• At least 8 years of experience with Application Architecture and prior software development background,
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience building enterprise, and highly resilient ( 4 9s) and scalable Cloud solutions and Public Cloud Architecture certification
• Prior experience building architecture and implementing Gen AI applications, Prompt Engineering, Cryptocurrencies and Digital Assets is a plus.
• Ability to drive through technology and solution strategy, with agility and leadership skills which engineers recognize and respect.
• Prior financial services experiences with building software solutions that meet the current and anticipated business needs across a broad set of partners.
• Provide tradeoff evaluation and ability to influence architects and key stakeholders with critical technical and design decisions
• Provide hands-on technical in-depth evaluation of an emerging technology and guidance for how to get from the current state to the target state
• Design for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
• Review, advise, and provide feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team.
• Lead the end-to-end solution design and architecture for key company initiatives.
• Present architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
  
  

What you have

Required Qualifications

• A min of 8 years of experience designing large, complex and highly scalable enterprise application architecture solutions
• Minimum 5 years of experience architecting and deploying enterprise applications in Public Cloud, Gen AI is a Plus.
• Self-starter, passion for Technology and staying ahead of industry trends
• Ability to own and communicate a strategic architecture vision across the organization as well as drive and influence architecture direction both directly and indirectly
• Strong business acumen and the ability to work across domains to deliver value
• Experience with modern architecture patterns: cloud-native patterns, microservices, cloud-native, event sourcing, dependency injection, RAGs, etc.
• Understanding of operational and non-functional concerns: scalability, resilience, performance, maintainability, etc.
• Knowledge of 12-factor application and cloud-native infrastructure design
• Experience building Generative AI applications, Agentic AI, Crypto technologies and digital assets is a plus
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for both executive and technical audiences
• Strong software engineering background is required
  
  

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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