Technical Director

Charles Schwab is a different kind of investment services firm – one that strives to disrupt the status quo of the traditional Wall Street approach on behalf of our clients. We believe today, as we did on Day 1, that when you find ways to improve the investing experience for your clients, then business results will follow.

You will be joining us as a Technical Director (Senior Technical Architect) focused on providing architectural guidance across multiple projects/teams. We are looking for a curious person with excellent technical skills, leadership and communication to guide the team through technology challenges while driving towards target architecture.

* Work closely with Enterprise Delivery Managers, Functional Solution Architects and with business teams to architect technology solutions to meet client needs * Understanding complex problems easily and come up with simple solutions * Lead technical requirements gathering sessions and producing technical requirements and design documents * Manage the technical delivery of integrations, security, single-sign-on and application customizations * Publishing and presenting the architecture to technology leaders and business executives * Provide hands on expert level assistance to developers for technical issues * Suggest alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements efficiently, and/or with greater reusability, and/or longer life * Promote and coordinate technical knowledge harvesting within the organization * Define, communicate and enforce design / coding standards * Identify reusable code required for our code library and ensures the high quality creation of the code * Track and identify new technologies to solve the business problems

* 10+ years of solid development experience in distributed platform * 5+ years of experience as an architect in building complex, highly scalable and low latency applications * Experience with C# and/or Java in a Linux / Windows data center environment * Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a mission critical service * Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development * Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence * Experience growing high performing engineering teams * Good judgment and the ability to handle stressful situations. * Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends, etc. * Experience as a technical leader in an organization; including coaching and mentoring, working through complex problems, and working with our business partners to deliver an amazing experience for our clients * Must have qualities that engineers recognize and respect * Broad knowledge of the software engineering and architecture space: languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends, etc. * Deep knowledge of REST and the Web Services space * Knowledge and experience with server side .NET and Java * Knowledge of nosql databases (Aerospike, MongoDB are preferred) * The ability to step in and code to drive a solution that your engineers can build upon