About the Role
This role provides enterprise architecture leadership for large-scale modernization, governance, and platform evolution across mainframe, distributed, and public cloud systems. You will influence how teams modernize legacy platforms, adopt cloud-native patterns, and scale applications securely and resiliently.
Responsibilities
- Provide enterprise architecture leadership across heterogeneous platforms including mainframe, distributed, and cloud-native systems.
- Define and evangelize application modernization patterns and practices (e.g., strangler, decomposition, re-platforming).
- Establish and govern public cloud application patterns and reference architectures.
- Lead architecture governance, including standards, design reviews, and exception management.
- Define and promote scalable application patterns supporting diverse deployment models and technologies.
- Influence developer productivity through modern tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and GitHub-based workflows.
- Shape enterprise API architectures and integration strategies.
- Optimize security requirements into architecture governance processes.
- Partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to define current, transitional, and target-state architectures.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise application and platform architecture.
- Proven leadership in large-scale modernization initiatives.
- Demonstrated depth in modern distributed/cloud architectures.
- Strong experience defining and enforcing architecture standards and governance.
- Ability to influence senior leaders and translate complex systems into clear architectural direction.
- Deep understanding of modern delivery practices including Agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD.
Skills
- Enterprise Architecture leadership across application, platform, and integration domains.
- Application modernization patterns and migration strategies.
- Public cloud application architectures and hybrid integration models.
- Architecture governance frameworks and operating models.
- Developer tooling, CI/CD, and automation using GitHub and modern pipelines.
- API and event-driven architectures
- AI Solution Architectures
- Familiarity with mainframe application architecture, SDLC, optimization, and modernization.
- Scaling patterns for high-volume, mission-critical applications across heterogeneous environments.
- Familiarity with Business Architecture concepts and practices
Location
- Westlake, TX
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- In-office collaboration
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
About the Company
- 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 Enterprise Architecture community, you will join an elite group representing the pinnacle of technical expertise and architectural leadership.
