Charles Schwab · 22 hours ago
Cloud Architect (AWS)
US-TX-Southlake
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$179K/yr - $209K/yr
8+ years expCharles Schwab is a financial services company that empowers clients to invest in market-driven themes. The Cloud Architect (AWS) will be responsible for architecting scalable services on AWS, leading projects across teams, and mentoring engineers to enhance the Schwab Investing Themes platform.
Financial Services
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
Qualification
Required
8+ years highly technical experience with designing and hands on development Sprint Boot Restful services in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience creating detailed architectural designs in AWS
Experience with architecture and design of large Relational databases in Amazon Web Services like Aurora MySQL and Messaging services like RabbitMQ
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 available, 24x7 systems
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
Preferred
Experience with PCF is a plus
Experience working with Terraform is a plus
Experience with concepts like Sharding is a plus
Experience in trading domain is a preferred
AWS Certified Solutions Architect is a plus
Benefits
Bonus or incentive opportunities
Company
Charles Schwab
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