Director, Architect Principal - Workplace Services Engineering
Charles Schwab Inc. · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Southlake, Texas, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Senior
- 15+ years
Lead architectural vision and modernization strategy for Schwab’s Stock Plan Technology platform, driving cloud-native, API-first, and resilient solutions.
Compensation
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Partner with platform architects, enterprise architects, and engineering teams to define and evolve current- and future-state architectures
- Drive architectural decisions for transitioning monolithic, tightly coupled systems to scalable, modular, API-first, cloud-native, and event-driven architectures
- Create and enforce architectural principles, reference architectures, design patterns, engineering guardrails, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and governance processes
- Partner with Engineering, SRE, and Operations teams to improve system stability, availability, observability, performance, disaster recovery readiness, and operational excellence
- Translate complex technical strategies into business outcomes, influence investment decisions, secure executive alignment, and communicate modernization progress, risks, and value realization to senior stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
- Nice to have: TOGAF
- Nice to have: AWS/Azure Professional Architect
- Nice to have: CISSP