Solutions Application Architect – Advisor Services Technology

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving as we challenge the status quo and help shape the future of financial services—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 Austin, TX location. 

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. Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

This is an opportunity to play a critical role in shaping the technology that supports Registered Investment Advisors and the clients they serve. As a senior architecture leader within Advisor Services Technology, you will influence enterprise-scale platforms, guide multiple engineering teams, and help deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions. You will partner closely with business and product leaders to translate strategy into architecture that enables innovation while managing risk. This role offers the chance to lead with impact, elevate engineering practices, and help define the future of advisor-facing technology at Schwab.

What you have

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Define and evolve target-state application architectures aligned to business priorities and technology roadmaps
• Establish and maintain architectural patterns, standards, and guidelines that support scalable, high-quality solutions
• Partner with business and product leaders to guide technical decisions, manage risk, and enable secure application design
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, tech leads, and engineering teams across domains
• Proactively identify architectural gaps and translate them into actionable requirements and improvement initiatives
• Lead impact analysis and architecture strategies for major initiatives such as cloud adoption, API expansion, testing modernization, and platform enhancements

Operational Excellence & Governance

• Provide architectural governance and oversight to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and technology guidelines
• Influence secure coding practices and participate in application security design reviews and assessments
• Offer consultative guidance on design decisions, development approaches, and technology tradeoffs
• Design and implement processes to track application security remediation, including meaningful metrics and risk reporting for leadership

Enterprise Collaboration & Influence

• Contribute to the development and adoption of enterprise architecture principles and shared technology standards
• Support the communication, education, and enablement of architectural best practices across Schwab Technology Services
• Build strong, inclusive partnerships across engineering, security, product, and business teams

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application architecture, or related technical leadership roles
• Demonstrated ability to define and guide application architecture for complex, enterprise-scale systems
• Proven experience influencing secure, scalable, and resilient software design across multiple teams
• Strong capability to translate business needs into technical strategies, frameworks, and architectural decisions
• Experience guiding governance practices related to application security, reliability, and operational risk
• Ability to lead through influence in a highly collaborative, matrixed environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shaping enterprise standards, policies, or frameworks that improve engineering efficiency and quality
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience using data and insights to guide architectural decisions and technology strategy
• Background in cloud-based architectures, distributed systems, and API-driven platforms
• Demonstrated success fostering a culture of learning, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Comfort presenting recommendations and influencing decision-making at senior and executive levels
• Strong written communication skills for architectural documentation, standards, and strategy narratives

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