Your Opportunity
Working as a Principal Public Cloud Architect you will lead IT transformation initiatives, systems optimization projects and provide direct influence on technology strategy and direction for the Schwab Public Cloud organization. This role will work closely and collaboratively with a team of like-minded architects, engineers, application teams and leadership to define current and future state Public Cloud automation, hosting, and security capabilities.

What you are good at

• Advising and assisting application teams optimally onboard to public cloud.
• Work with peers to define forward looking strategy for Public Cloud Platforms.
• Perform proof of concept work for new technologies.
• Define reference architectures and standards.
• Define detailed roadmaps, trace and provide regular reporting to executives on progress.
• Work with engineering teams during implementation and revise strategies and architectures as needed.
• Be a champion for modern cloud practices.

What you have

• Proven industry leading experience driving Public Cloud strategy.
• Extensive experience architecting applications and automation technologies to meet the highest standards of availability, capacity, resiliency and security
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and strategies including, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Technologies from Amazon, Azure and Google.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as VMware vRealize Suite, HashiCorp Suite, SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, and Chef technologies
• Experience automating full lifecycle management of application hosting platforms in data center and public cloud using GitOps methodologies
• Experience successfully delivering cloud-based application hosting solutions on Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
• Significant experience with IT Strategy and Technology Service Management
• Strong leadership abilities to work both within the technology organization and with external business partners and consumers to achieve and measure IT business objectives
• Collaborative and highly adaptable working style; strong communication skills; polish and poise when communicating.
• Skilled with standard multi-tier platform architectures .NET, Java, message queuing, streaming, RDBMS, and file and object-based architectures
• Strong understanding and knowledge of industry technology standards, compliance activities and experience working with audit and regulatory bodies
• Skilled in working with multiple vendors and business groups and ability to lead large efforts with many partner groups from end to end.
• Process management creation and maturity experience within a Service Management organization primarily with an AGILE, LEAN or SaFE methodology.
• Extensive return on investment and Case development experience - the experience vital to be able to confidently predict and forecast possible outcomes
• Desired experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries