Job description
Your Opportunity
This role can be remote.
Charles Schwab’s Architects thrive in an innovative work culture while developing products that help Schwab customers learn, explore, and make life-impacting moves on their paths to achieving their goals. The Solution Application Architecture team working for the Office of the CTO is looking for a Cloud and Strategic Programs Architect who will push forward Schwab’s multi-year transformation vision and driving the strategy for the most critical and impactful programs at Schwab including Cloud. This is an elite team of senior architects who understand end-to-end application architecture, cloud and can help shape the future direction for Schwab. You'll work closely with business, product, and technology partners to translate purposeful business vision and requirements into innovative solution architectures that enable Schwab's highest priority objectives and align to both the technology strategy and target-state architecture. The right individual is a proactive, self-starter that enjoys and thrives when connecting people and technology to solve sophisticated problems at-scale. You will architect and lead programs for Schwab that require the integration of Cloud and multiple technologies and teams across the organization. If you have a passion and skill for long-term end-to-end thinking balanced with crafting architecture increments that enable value for customers now, this role is for you.
What you are good at
Successfully lead, design, architect and deliver sophisticated programs for the company including Cloud- Providing advice and guidance to other architects and team leads regarding technical and design decisions and well as evaluation, and facilitation for the development of current and future architecture.
- Designing for both functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, etc.
- Reviewing, advising, and providing assessments on architectures produced within and outside the team.
- Leading the end-to-end solution design and architecture for key company initiatives.
- Delivering architecture and innovative ideas to executive leadership for the purposes of alignment and key decision making
What you have
A min of 8 years of application architecture or solution architecture experience and passion for Technology- Prior experience with Public Cloud, cloud certification is a Plus.
- Ability to own architecture, including strategic direction and presentation of a vision for the future of the end-to-end Schwab Technology platform.
- Ability to drive through, directly and through influence, efficient solution strategy, with agility and leadership skills which engineers recognize and respect.
- Desire and ability to understand diverse business domains and develop architectures that meet the current and anticipated business needs across a broad set of partners.
- Ability to evaluate new technologies and stay ahead of industry trends.
- Good judgment and the ability to handle high pressure situations.
- Experience with and knowledge of common Architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, Cloud Patterns, Dependency injection, Event sourcing, etc.).
- Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience and recovery, etc.).
- Experience with Cloud Native (12-Factor) Architecture and Infrastructure Patterns.
- Experience with the 4+1 architectural view model.
- Ability to devise, develop and apply innovative technology to solutions that would benefit our clients.
- Ability to influence and effect changes that have broad and long-term impact on the firm.
- Refined presentation and communication skills and experience interfacing and communicating effectively with both engineers and executives.
- A strong software engineering and/or prior development background
Why work for us?
Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.
Benefits: A competitive and flexible package designed to empower you for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive and flexible package designed to help you make the most of your life at work and at home—today and in the future.
TD Ameritrade, a subsidiary of Charles Schwab, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At TD Ameritrade we believe People Matter. We value diversity and believe that it goes beyond all protected classes, thoughts, ideas, and perspectives.
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