Director, Architect Principal

Your Opportunity

The Retail Web Technology (RWT) organization leads a coordinated technology approach to continually improveSchwab’s primary retail digital platform. Our team is seeking a talentedPrincipal Architect, who embraces beingtechnicalleader and has a real passion The Retail Web Technology (RWT) organization leads a coordinated technology approach to continually improveSchwab’s primary retail digital platform. Our team is seeking a talentedPrincipal Architect, who embraces beingtechnicalleader and has a real passion for usingstate of the artweb technologies to build compelling interactive web applications.Our mission is to buildrobustsolutions that achieve measurable value, which empower ourclients,in a fun and engaging environment. In RWT, we strive to embody Schwab’s Through Clients' Eyes strategy through our people and creative solutions.

Whatyou’lldo:

As ourPrincipal Architect, you will need to be a self-starter who partners well with others. This role is all about getting the job done, so you have a can/will do mentality about all tasks associated with getting phenomenal code out the door. You prioritize mentoring yourteammatesand you ask for help when needed. At Schwab, we understand that a highly collaborative environment allows for being wrong sometimes as part of growing and building trust together. As aSchwabbie, you listen to others with an open mind, foster diverse inputs, and respectfully convey your thoughts and opinions in pursuit of our collective goals.

What you have

• Youpossessan exacting attention to detail and the talent and enthusiasm for producing highly usable and scalable web software solutions using advanced development technologies

• You are a proven communicator with technology and business partners at various levels

• You are comfortable solving problems in a dynamic customer-focused team environment that uses the newest technologies and techniques

Required:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3-5+ years in an Architecture role. 

• Proven experience designing large-scale, high-TPS, mission-critical web applications. 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, domain-driven design, and event-driven architectures. 

• Expert knowledge ofmicroservicesarchitecture patterns and service decomposition. 

• Strong API designexpertise(REST,gRPC,GraphQL). 

• Experience designing multi-region,highly available, fault-tolerant systems. 

• Strong understanding of caching, load balancing, service mesh, and traffic management. 

• Expertise inperformance engineering, scalability, and capacity planning.

• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure accepted).

• Experience designing cloud-native applications using containers and Kubernetes. 

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager,Pulumi).

• Experience with observability platforms including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.

• Ability to balance business priorities, technical debt, cost, scalability, and risk.

• Proven ability to influence engineering leaders, product leaders, and executives without direct authority.

Preferred:

• Experience integrating AI/ML services into customer-facing applications.

• Working knowledge ofC# and.NETCore development

• Knowledge of LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.

• Experience with platform modernization, micro-frontends, and cloud migrations.

• Financial services or highly regulated industry experience.

• Track recordof delivering platforms that meet aggressive growth, performance, and reliabilityobjectives.

• Understanding ofAI governance, security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.

• Understanding ofAgile software development principles, includingexperienceparticipatingin a Scrum-based delivery team