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About the Role

The Blockchain Platform Architect will define and guide the architecture for enterprise-grade blockchain and digital asset platforms within the Technology Incubation organization. This role will translate emerging blockchain opportunities into secure, scalable, and operationally resilient platform designs that can move from experimentation to enterprise adoption. The architect will partner closely with engineering, cloud, security, enterprise architecture, risk, legal, compliance, product, and business stakeholders to design platforms that balance innovation speed with Schwab’s standards for security, resiliency, governance, and client trust.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state architecture and technical roadmap for blockchain and digital asset platform capabilities, including platform components, service boundaries, integration patterns, APIs, data models, and operational controls.
• Design secure, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that support experimentation, pilot delivery, and production use.
• Evaluate blockchain protocols, node infrastructure, custody patterns, smart contract frameworks, interoperability models, and blockchain data access strategies.
• Partner with engineering teams to guide implementation, review designs, resolve complex technical tradeoffs, and establish reusable platform patterns.
• Collaborate with security, risk, legal, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure platform designs meet enterprise controls, regulatory expectations, defense-in-depth principles, and operational resilience requirements.
• Define architecture documentation, reference models, decision records, design standards, and graduation criteria needed to move capabilities from prototype to sustainable ownership.
• Serve as a technical advisor to the Director of Technology and executive stakeholders by translating blockchain architecture choices into business value, risk implications, investment needs, and adoption paths.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field (advanced degree a plus).
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering including delivering platforms, or complex technology initiatives.
• Strong technical foundation in modern architectures, cloud-native development, and engineering best practices; ability to guide technical decisions without needing to be the primary implementer.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries and collaborate effectively with Product, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Security, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills—able to align leaders, and convey technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Deep experience designing and operating enterprise platforms, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven patterns, observability, resiliency, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong understanding of blockchain fundamentals, distributed ledger technologies, consensus mechanisms, cryptography, smart contracts, tokenization concepts, node operations, custody models, and digital asset transaction flows.
• Experience applying security and control patterns such as authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response readiness.
• Ability to work across ambiguous, emerging technology spaces while producing practical architecture artifacts, decision frameworks, and implementation guidance.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, architects, product partners, risk stakeholders, and senior leaders.

Skills

• blockchain
• digital asset platforms
• enterprise architecture
• cloud-native development
• distributed systems
• APIs
• event-driven patterns
• observability
• resiliency
• DevSecOps
• blockchain protocols
• node infrastructure
• custody patterns
• smart contract frameworks
• interoperability models
• blockchain data access strategies
• security
• risk management
• legal
• compliance
• governance
• client trust
• authentication
• authorization
• encryption
• key management
• secrets management
• secure coding
• vulnerability management
• monitoring
• incident response

Location

• on site

Work Type

• on site
• full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field

Salary/Compensations

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

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.
• The Schwab Technology Services (STS) Research & Development team explores emerging technologies and turns them into practical capabilities that create measurable value across Schwab. We operate at the intersection of innovation and execution—rapidly testing ideas, partnering across the enterprise, and scaling what works.