Director, Cloud Engineer Principal - Hybrid

Your opportunity

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.

Duties:  Define target state architecture for the Cloud Engineering organization and collaborate with peers to drive a three year roadmap into achievable goals. Identify and communicate the gaps in ownership and coverage between teams and technology solutions. Work with and influence product owners regarding technology controls and risk mitigation techniques related to application layer security. Promote awareness of security principles and standards in architecture and development community. Mentor and guide architects and tech leads on design, code standards, and performance best practices. Be highly visible in the communities of practice at Schwab, build and sustain good working relationships with development teams and involve them in the overall application and platform strategies. Shephard key initiatives of interest such as migration to new datacenters and new high-availability topologies, volume growths due to acquisitions, and adoption of emerging platforms. Governance and oversight for all architecture changes for compliance with technology standards and alignment with Schwab guidelines. Participate and work with developer experience and enterprise architecture teams in defining and documenting secure coding practices. Provide consulting, design, reviews, and recommendations for engineering and operation activities. Participate and grow to a vocal leader in governance meetings and review boards. Deliver, or consult in the delivery of, solution architecture design documents.

Salary:  $227,500.00 - $278,900.00 per year

What you have

Job Requirements:  Requires 72 months of experience in a related occupation. Experience must include 72 months involving the following: Public Cloud Technologies; Infrastructure and application observability solutions; Infrastructure automation including Infrastructure as Code; Making technical decisions at the application and organization level including vendor/technology selection, solution architecture, or assessing tradeoffs; Architecting cloud-based or cloud-ready apps; CI/CD and GitOps processes; Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development; RDBMS databases including Oracle or SQL; Automation orchestration solutions including Git repositories and CI/CD tooling; Container hosting platforms; and Public cloud solutions including GCP or AWS.