Job Description:
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. The Principal Architect – SAMDA Platform is the senior technical authority accountable for the architecture, technical strategy, and long‑term evolution of the SAMDA platform. This role sets the architectural vision, engineering standards, and design guardrails that govern how the platform is built, operated, and scaled across SAM Data. The Principal Architect owns the target‑state architecture and platform patterns that enable secure, resilient, and compliant delivery of critical regulatory and operational data capabilities. This includes defining how data domains, pipelines, consumption layers, and platform services are designed and integrated across Custody, Investment, Accounting, and reference data domains. Operating across platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, data architecture, security, governance, and production operations, the role ensures architectural consistency, production stability, and long‑term sustainability. The Principal Architect enables federated teams to move faster through clear standards and reusable patterns, while ensuring the platform meets strict reliability, risk, and regulatory expectations.
