Director, Distinguished Engineer, BDM

logy leadership across a complex portfolio of applications, platforms, and modernization initiatives. In this role, you will shape, communicate, and drive the long-term architectural vision for the BDM domain while ensuring alignment to Schwab's broader technology strategy.

You will lead BDM architectural initiatives, guide modernization efforts, and ensure that all technology decisions support business outcomes, risk expectations, and operational excellence. As a trusted advisor, you will work closely with senior business and technology leaders, offering strategic insight on technological trends, competitive differentiators, and opportunities to innovate.

What you have

Required:

Architecture Leadership

• Proven ability to lead complex, large enterprise, architectural initiatives across multiple teams, domains, or business areas.

• Ability to perform solution architecture for highly complex programs involving multiple systems, emerging technologies, or substantial investment.

• Proven track record of designing and delivering enterprise-scale systems that handle high volume, high availability, and mission-critical workloads across multiple lines of business.

• Demonstrated accountability for ensuring modernization strategies and blueprints are executed as designed.

• Experience providing feedback and ongoing guidance to fine-tune systems and implementations based on real-world scenarios

Strategic Thinking & Technology Direction

• Experience analyzing current vs. target state capability gaps and formulating domain level technology strategies.

• Ability to establish and maintain technology blueprints, roadmaps, and a three-year technology strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead a community of practice across architects and technical leaders, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective ownership of architectural standards.

• Experience creating forums and mechanisms that promote teamwork, continuous improvement, and innovation across distributed or matrixed technical teams.

Portfolio & Governance

• Experience providing technical leadership across portfolios, strategic programs, and functional domains.

• Strong understanding of technology governance, risk tolerances, exception processes, and compliance requirements.

• Skilled at mediating and escalating design disagreements to drive aligned outcomes.

Business & Technology Acumen

• Minimum 10 year experience with broker-dealer technology and management systems.

• Expertise in cloud modernization, Java, .Net, Kafka and NoSQL technical environments.

• Expertise in large scale mainframe modernization (reverse engineering and forward engineering) through the use of Gen AI and agentic AI.

• Ability to build and maintain strong business relationships and act as the first point of architectural guidance for the domain.

• Strong executive presence, including the ability and experience to build and deliver presentations, materials, and communication to executive level leadership.

• Leadership courage to respectfully challenge decisions when necessary and fully commit once decisions are made.

What's in it for you

At Schwab, you're empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance