Charles Schwab · 11 hours ago
Senior Architect
Southlake, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expCharles Schwab is a company focused on transforming the finance industry through innovative technology solutions. They are hiring a Senior Architect to provide technical leadership and architectural direction across multiple Agile teams, with responsibilities that include shaping the future of retirement technology and driving innovation in key projects such as Electronic Account Opening and Crypto capabilities in retirement accounts.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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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