Principal Domain Architect - Databases/Storage & Middleware

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).

The Domain Architect role in Cloud Services is a specialized technical leadership position, distinct from traditional Principal Engineer roles. Domain Architects act as the technical authority for specific cloud domains across all three major cloud service providers: GCP, Azure, and AWS.

Position Responsibilities:

• Own the technical vision for databases, storage, and middleware services across GCP, Azure, and AWS (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Composer, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub)
• Design opinionated architectural patterns that will be implemented as Terraform modules, and guide tech leads and engineers in creating these designs
• Co-chair the Domain Special Interest Group (SIG), helping to define the roadmap, prioritize delivery, and disposition feature requests for your domains of expertise
• Provide subject matter expertise to application teams during architecture reviews, assisting with pattern selection and solution design
• Collaborate across domains with other architects and teams to ensure consistency and seamless integration

Why This Role Matters:

Enterprise workloads such as Trading depend on reliable, performant, and secure database, storage, and middleware services. As Domain Architect, you will ensure Cloud Services delivers world-class infrastructure for mission-critical applications, maintaining operational excellence across three cloud providers.

You will define how Schwab consumes cloud services at scale—balancing innovation with stability, and empowering hundreds of application teams to build faster and more securely.

Success Looks Like:

• Domain patterns are consistently high-quality, well-documented, and widely adopted
• SIG balances customer needs with long-term technical strategy
• Engineering team delivers features on time and with high quality
• App teams leverage domain services with minimal friction
• Your expertise is recognized across the organization as authoritative and helpful

This is a technical leadership role requiring deep cloud expertise, product thinking, and a passion for enabling others to succeed.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years highly technical experience with cloud design in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Demonstrated experience creating detailed architectural designs in either GCP (preferred) or AWS
• 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 big-data infrastructure
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in cryptocurrency/blockchain platforms and protocols
• Demonstrated coding proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Salt or similar automation tools
• Working proficiency with SCM and DevOps tool suites; examples include Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, Concourse etc.
• Experience designing for mission critical, 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
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect is a plus
• Experience in the Financial Services industry is a plus

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