Director, Blockchain Platform Architect - Technology Incubation - R&D

Overview

In this role you will define and guide the architecture for enterprise-grade blockchain and digital asset platforms within Schwab's Technology Incubation organization. You will translate blockchain opportunities into secure, scalable, and operational designs that move from experimentation to enterprise adoption, collaborating with engineering, security, risk, legal, and product stakeholders. You will establish reusable patterns, architecture documentation, and decision records to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance and client trust. This is a hands-on, impact-focused opportunity to shape how Schwab enables innovative blockchain solutions at scale.

Compensation / Benefits

• bonus or incentive opportunities

Responsibilities

• Own target-state architecture and roadmap for blockchain and digital asset platform capabilities

Key requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience including delivering platforms or complex technology initiatives
• Strong foundation in cloud-native architectures and engineering best practices
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and collaborate with Product, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Security, and business stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills to align leaders and convey technical tradeoffs
• Deep experience designing and operating enterprise platforms, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven patterns, observability, resiliency, and DevSecOps
• Strong understanding of blockchain fundamentals, distributed ledger technologies, consensus mechanisms, cryptography, smart contracts, tokenization, node operations, and digital asset transaction flows
• Experience applying security and control patterns (authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, secrets management, secure coding, vulnerability management, monitoring, incident response)
• Ability to work across ambiguous, emerging technology spaces while producing practical architecture artifacts and guidance
• Clear communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, architects, product partners, risk stakeholders, and senior leaders

• excellent communication
• influence across organizational boundaries
• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• cloud-native architectures
• APIs
• event-driven patterns