Cloud Architect (AWS)

Charles Schwab•Southlake, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Your Opportunity At Schwab, you are 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. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). Schwab Investing Themes empowers clients to invest in 45 market-driven themes, supporting over 100,000 clients and $1B+ in assets. The department is dedicated to building exceptional client and representative experiences, delivering the capabilities and services needed to support thematic investing. As an Architect, you will play a pivotal role in optimizing and refactoring existing services, as well as developing new capabilities to drive the continued growth of the Schwab Investing Themes platform. This position challenges the status quo and enables Schwab to make a significant impact in the investment space.

Requirements

8+ years highly technical experience with designing and hands on development
Sprint Boot Restful services in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Experience with PCF is a plus
Experience creating detailed architectural designs in AWS, experience working with Terraform is a plus.
Experience with architecture and design of large Relational databases in Amazon Web Services like Aurora MySQL and Messaging services like RabbitMQ.
Experience with concepts like Sharding is a plus
Experience with Cloud Security products and following secure design principles
Experienced in the development of policy and operational processes to insure high availability and service of entire technology stack, from front-end web traffic to back-end infrastructure
Working proficiency with SCM and DevOps tool suites; examples include Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo.
Experience designing for mission critical client facing and highly avialable, 24x7 systems, experience in trading domain is a preferred
Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum, experience adopting or leading continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts and frameworks
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cyber Security, related degree OR related practical experience

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified Solutions Architect is a plus

Responsibilities

Architect distributed, scalable, and complex services on AWS and PCF platforms
Develop Software Architecture Documents and collaborate with highly experienced development teams
Lead the architecture for Thematic Core Platform Services—an enterprise solution for building and managing benchmark and customized themes
Lead large projects across multiple teams within the organization
Mentor and proactively delegate to develop engineers
Design large components and systems, following and evolving architectural patterns
Build reference implementations and valuable documentation
Address scaling, performance, and availability concerns
Serve as a thought leader on emerging technology
Solve complex problems with ambiguous or incomplete data in highly distributed systems
Ensure end-to-end visibility into platform availability and performance
Recommend libraries, frameworks, and languages