Job Description:
This role is designed for in-office collaboration and is based on site in Westlake, TX or Austin, TX. At Schwab, you’re 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. As part of Schwab’s Distinguished Engineer community, you will be part of an elite group representing the pinnacle of technical talent and industry best practices. This community of technology leaders is instrumental in driving the firm's technology strategy, fostering innovation, and ensuring excellence in our data architecture practices. Schwab is accelerating enterprise data modernization to support faster product delivery, stronger governance, and responsible AI adoption. We’re evolving cloud-scale platforms and event-driven data capabilities while raising the bar on quality, lineage, and controls demanded by a regulated business. This is the moment to define the north star and the paved road that teams will follow for years. At Schwab, you’ll tackle problems at real scale—building and governing data capabilities that power digital investing for millions of clients. If you’ve led principal-level architecture in big tech or in highly regulated environments, you’ll find both the complexity and the opportunity to make a firmwide mark here. You’ll operate at the intersection of cloud modernization, enterprise governance, and regulatory rigor—this is a high-trust role with executive visibility and broad influence across platforms, product teams, and shared services. Reporting to the Office of the CTO, you’ll set the enterprise data strategy, standards, and governance that guide how Schwab designs, builds, and operates data products and platforms. Your work will enable thousands of technologists to better serve millions of clients—supporting the stewardship of trillions of dollars in client assets—while meeting high bars for security, resiliency, and compliance.
