Platform Architect

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At Schwab, you are 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.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

The CET-Move Money team builds secure, scalable, and resilient money movement capabilities enabling clients to transfer funds seamlessly and safely. As a Architect Lead, you will own end-to-end architectural direction for high-volume, compliance-sensitive services, refactor legacy components, and shape platform strategy in partnership with product and senior leadership.

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 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 (Rabbit
  
  MQ; 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)
• Dev Ops 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 Qualifications:

• 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

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 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