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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 a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning. We’re hiring a Senior Architect to provide technical leadership, architecture direction, and hands-on guidance across multiple Agile teams. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of retirement technology and drive innovation across critical initiatives that impact millions of participants.
Job Responsibility:
Define target architectures, evolve domain boundaries, and establish integration patterns for modern, cloud-ready platforms
Ensure services are secure, resilient, observable, and performant, meeting regulatory and audit standards
Operate within a SAFe Agile Release Train, aligning roadmaps with architecture runway and managing cross-team dependencies
Partner with Product, Engineering Leaders, and Risk/Compliance to deliver incremental value with high quality and compliance
Mentor engineers and tech leads, elevate engineering practices, and drive continuous modernization of platforms and data
Requirements:
8+ years in software engineering with 5+ years building and evolving microservice architectures and leading technical direction for multiple teams in a SAFe or similar scaled‑Agile environment
Advanced proficiency with Java/Spring Boot, RESTful API design, inter‑service communication, and event‑driven patterns
strong familiarity cloud‑ready designs
Experience with Spring Cloud Data Flow, Oracle, Bamboo, Docker, GCP, AWS, and SALT
Hands‑on experience with SQL Server (modeling, query optimization, performance tuning) and working knowledge of Oracle
understanding of transactional integrity, concurrency, and data reliability patterns
Demonstrated use of observability stacks (metrics/logging/traces), capacity/performance testing, resiliency techniques, and production incident analysis to drive architectural improvements
Practical experience embedding security by design (authn/authz, token/claims, encryption in transit/at rest), managing data concerns, and meeting audit/traceability requirements
Ability to articulate architectural trade‑offs to leadership and engineers, build consensus across Product/Engineering/Risk, and convert strategy into clear, executable guardrails and patterns
Nice to have:
Experience modernizing legacy platforms to cloud‑ready architectures
familiarity with containers/orchestration, API gateways, caching, and messaging/streaming
Exposure to financial services or other regulated domains
understanding of controls and change governance
What we offer:
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