Your Opportunity:[
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Director-level Solution Architect to join Charles Schwab’s Application and Platform Architecture team. The role will push forward Schwab’s multi-year platform transformation vision by creating architecture and design guidance for its top priority initiatives. You’ll work closely with business, product, and technology partners to translate ambitious business vision and requirements into innovative solution architectures that enable the company’s highest priority objectives and align to both the Schwab technology strategy and target-state architecture. The right individual will be a proactive, self-starter that enjoys and thrives when connecting people and technology to solve complex problems at-scale. You will analyze, model, and develop complex and high-level architecture plans that require the integration of multiple technologies and coordination of functional areas across the organization. If you have a passion and skill for long-term end-to-end thinking balanced with crafting architecture increments that enable value for customers now, this role is for you!
The Solution Architecture team within the Application and Platform Architecture organization is responsible for providing architecture services to high priority initiatives. We are an organization that values diverse and big thinking, rewards both behaviors and delivery, and focuses on growth and continuous improvement – all in support of Schwab’s mission to help clients and one another succeed. This role is a unique opportunity to join a team and company at the beginning of a multi-year platform transformation whose work will have direct impact on company direction, our customers, and our industry.
]What youâre good at:
- Collaborate with Product and Technology teams to craft architecture that enables business vision.
- Design for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
- Assist the business in the scoping and planning of upcoming initiatives and roadmap items
- Participate in or lead in producing conceptual, solution, and component-level architectures and associated artifacts.
- Review, advise, and provide feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team
- Mentor and grow other technologists within the firm
- Own the end to end solution design and architecture for key company initiatives.
- Contribute to or lead definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive
- Help to develop new and revise governance processes to ensure alignment of a diverse set of technology projects with the enterprise target state vision.
- Present architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
- Connect your business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Schwab’s platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers.
What you have:
- Ability to own architecture and influence long-term direction and vision for the future.
- Desire and ability to understand diverse business domains and develop architectures that meet the current and anticipated business needs across a broad set of stakeholders.
- Ability to evaluate new technologies and know the latest industry trends.
- Good judgment and the ability to manage high pressure situations.
- Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, GoF, SOA, Event sourcing, etc.).
- Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience, recovery, security, privacy, etc.).
- Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.
- Knowledge of the enterprise technology space: languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends.
- Ability (and preference) to work in an Agile environment.
- Ability to devise, develop and apply innovative technology to solutions that would benefit our clients.
- Refined presentation and communication skills and the ability to interface and communicate effectively with both engineers and executives.
- A strong software engineering and/or architecture background is required.
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