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Charles Schwab · 8 hours ago

Director, Technical Cross Enterprise Services, Chief Architect

US-CA-San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$157K/yr - $350K/yr

Charles Schwab is a financial services company that emphasizes in-office collaboration. The Chief Architect for Cross Enterprise Services will lead architectural initiatives, guide modernization efforts, and ensure alignment with the company's technology strategy while influencing decision-making across organizational boundaries.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Proven ability to lead complex, large enterprise, architectural initiatives across multiple teams, domains, or business areas

Ability to perform solution architecture for highly complex programs involving multiple systems, emerging technologies, or substantial investment

Proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise-scale systems that handle high volume, high availability, and mission-critical workloads across multiple lines of business

Demonstrated accountability for ensuring modernization strategies and blueprints are executed as designed

Experience providing feedback and ongoing guidance to fine-tune systems and implementations based on real-world scenarios

Experience analyzing current vs. target state capability gaps and formulating domain level technology strategies

Ability to establish and maintain technology blueprints, roadmaps, and a three-year technology strategy

Demonstrated ability to build and lead a community of practice across architects and technical leaders, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective ownership of architectural standards

Experience creating forums and mechanisms that promote teamwork, continuous improvement, and innovation across distributed or matrixed technical teams

Experience providing technical leadership across portfolios, strategic programs, and functional domains

Strong understanding of technology governance, risk tolerances, exception processes, and compliance requirements

Skilled at mediating and escalating design disagreements to drive aligned outcomes

Expertise in cloud modernization, Java, .Net, Kafka and NoSQL technical environments

Ability to build and maintain strong business relationships and act as the first point of architectural guidance for the domain

Strong executive presence, including the ability and experience to build and deliver presentations, materials, and communication to executive level leadership

Leadership courage to respectfully challenge decisions when necessary and fully commit once decisions are made

Qualification

Architecture LeadershipCloud ModernizationJava.NetNoSQLKafkaTechnology GovernanceStrategic ThinkingExecutive PresenceTeam Collaboration

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