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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).
The Schwab Capacity Planning Team, within the Application Architecture team, is looking for a director-level Principal Architect with Site Reliability Engineering background, who is passionate about ensuring the capacity, availability and resiliency of critical applications & infrastructure to ensure that clients can transact anytime through the channels of their choice. Working across business and technology domains, this role will drive application capacity strategy across a wide variety of activities such as public cloud adoption, acquisitions & integrations, application modernization, and digital enablement.
The Principal Architect role at Schwab is a key position requiring senior technology expertise, representing the best technical talent in the firm and best practices in the industry. Principal Architects form a community of technology leadership at Schwab and are critically influential in driving technology strategy and guidance in their team and across the enterprise.
This role reports up to the Office of the CTO, chartered to establish technology governance, standards, practices, and strategy for the entire firm, enabling thousands of technologists to better serve the millions of Schwab clients and trillions of dollars in client assets. The role requires close collaboration with architects and engineers across the Schwab Technology Services (STS) organization.

Specific goals will include:

• Map key business transactions (KBTs) and critical infrastructure components, assess current capacity baseline, overlay current vs proposed demand & capacity to meet business needs.
• Provide guidance and standards in design & implementation of robust, scalable, reliable and high-availability systems.
• Create monitoring and alerting capabilities to help predict capacity and performance issues based on past trends, use data driven approaches and analytics to correlate of business metrics and client expectations, new environments, and market conditions to insights.
• Partner with Infrastructure & Operations (I&O), Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Strategy & Business Management (SBM) organizations, within STS to capture business, application and infrastructure metrics for capacity assessment and translate those to infrastructure needs.
• Translate the impact of capacity issues into business performance measures, assist in the reporting of risks and insights.
• Scale the capacity planning practices beyond KBTs and critical infrastructure components and strengthen the community of practice for application and infrastructure architecture at Schwab in collaboration with architects across STS.

Please refer the Job description for details