Charles Schwab · 7 hours ago
Platform Architect
Southlake, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCharles Schwab is a financial services company that emphasizes innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Platform Architect to lead the architectural direction for their Move Money Core Platform Services, focusing on building secure and scalable money movement capabilities while collaborating with various teams to align architecture with business objectives.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Architect distributed, scalable, event-driven, and highly available services on AWS, GCP, and PCF; apply cloud-native and microservices patterns
Define and evolve target state architectures; produce clear Software Architecture Documents and reference implementations
Lead architecture for Move Money Core Platform Services (secure transfers, orchestration, customization, throughput optimization)
Drive strategic technology roadmaps; advocate for product vision and senior leadership priorities; influence investment decisions
Ensure transactional integrity, data consistency, audit, fraud prevention hooks, and secure design (shift-left security)
Address scalability, latency, resiliency, observability, and performance (including concurrency, back-pressure, and failure isolation)
Mentor engineers; establish patterns, guardrails, and design review rigor
Recommend and evaluate frameworks, languages, messaging patterns, and storage models
Champion end-to-end monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and operational excellence (24x7 availability)
Collaborate with product, compliance, risk, cyber security, and operations to align architecture with regulatory and business objectives
Introduce pragmatic AI/ML accelerators where they add measurable value
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders; drive consensus across teams
Qualification
Required
8+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing applications using .NET Framework
Strong expertise in building and consuming Angular APIs for front-end development
Solid understanding of microservices architecture and cloud deployment strategies
Ability to work across full stack environments integrating .NET and Angular components
Architectural design experience in AWS, GCP; Terraform (infra-as-code) experience a plus
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) fundamentals (Compute, Storage, IAM) and multi-cloud architectural considerations
Advanced relational data modeling and performance tuning; strong understanding of transactional semantics
Messaging and integration expertise (RabbitMQ; event-driven patterns; idempotency; retry/backoff strategies)
Cloud security principles (encryption, secrets management, least privilege, threat modeling, secure APIs, OWASP)
High availability and resiliency engineering (circuit breakers, bulkheads, chaos readiness, DR strategies)
DevOps tooling proficiency (Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo or equivalent CI/CD pipelines); automated build, test, deploy flows
Observability (logs, metrics, traces), defining SLIs/SLOs, and production readiness checklists
Agile/Scrum and continuous delivery adoption leadership
Proven delivery of mission-critical, client-facing 24x7 systems (payments, trading, or high-volume financial transactions)
Preferred
AI/ML knowledge (concepts, model lifecycle, practical application for fraud detection, risk scoring, or operational insights)
Experience with domain-driven design, data streaming, and event sourcing patterns
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
Benefits
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
Paid parental leave and family building benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Company
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