Principal Architect

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re 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.

The Client Experience Organization is seeking a Platform Architect to lead the Retail Onboarding and Activation teams.  This role calls for a self-driven individual with strong leadership abilities, broad architectural expertise, and deep technical knowledge who thrives in a collaborative environment. Your leadership and technical insight will be crucial in developing an architecture strategy that supports business goals and aligns with industry best practices. The ideal candidate will be adept at guiding technology direction, offering expert advice, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex, integrated solutions within a fast-paced, agile setting.

-Lead architectural initiatives from design to support
-Improve platform stability, performance, and resilience to reduce risk and deliver seamless experiences at scale
-Leverage AI to innovate processes and outcomes for maximum efficiency and quality
-Leads the execution of system design strategies for cloud-based environments

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

▪ Champions architectural strategies across teams and enterprises
▪ Leads the enterprise architecture strategy through policies, standards, and governance
▪ Influence life cycle management policies and governance frameworks that ensure quality, reliability, and security
▪ Directs the strategic priorities for organizational capability improvement
▪ Shapes strategic frameworks for innovative, system design and architecture

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Anticipates and responds to evolving business needs while managing organizational priorities
▪ Leverages analytical insights to shape policy, drive outcomes, and guide strategy
▪ Communicates key information with stakeholders across multiple channels to ensure successful outcomes
▪ Utilizes intelligence of the industry, market, and competition to influence strategy in the business area
▪ Utilizes holistic, abstract, or theoretical perspectives to guide strategic direction and anticipates industry trends
▪ Transforms data into actionable insights and mentors others in diagnostic techniques
▪ Influences innovative solutions and contingency plans in the broader business area
▪ Promotes creativity, experimentation, and strategic thinking to differentiate Schwab from its competitors
▪ Exerts executive influence to drive enterprise-wide direction and optimize partnerships
▪ Fosters strong cross-group connections. approaching sensitive issues with empathy
▪ Takes responsibility for empowering people towards greater results
▪ Sets the benchmark for organizational credibility, ethical conduct, and confidentiality
▪ Crafts persuasive messages that shape and influence behaviors to drive outcomes

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