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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Digital Assets Business Architect - **Company:** TD Ameritrade - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States - **Salary:** $121,400.0 - $269,900.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Digital Assets, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Blockchain, Tokenization, Transaction Processing (Computing), Cloud Platform System - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.schwabjobs.com/financial-consultant-academy-opportunity-branch-network ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent business experience. * Experience within financial services, capital markets, fintech, payments, custody, settlement, digital assets, or related industries. * Demonstrated experience designing, modernizing, or integrating complex trading, transfer, settlement, custody, or transaction processing platforms. * Knowledge of blockchain technology, tokenization frameworks, digital asset ecosystems, and distributed ledger platforms. * Experience partnering with both business and technology stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills. * Ability to navigate complex environments, manage competing priorities, and influence decision-making across multiple organizations. * Experience translating business objectives into operating models, business capabilities, and technology requirements. * Understanding of risk management, regulatory considerations, and operational controls within financial services environments., * Experience supporting tokenized securities, digital asset custody platforms, or blockchain-enabled market infrastructure. * Knowledge of digital asset lifecycles, including issuance, trading, custody, transfer, and settlement. * Familiarity with smart contracts, programmable assets, and token standards. * Understanding of real-time settlement, delivery versus payment (DvP), and digital asset transfer models. * Experience evaluating blockchain platforms, exchanges, custodians, or other digital asset service providers. * Knowledge of digital asset regulatory frameworks, fraud prevention controls, transaction monitoring, and identity management solutions. * Experience working within large-scale enterprise transformation or platform modernization initiatives. ## Description 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. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). The Digital Assets Business Architecture team is responsible for shaping the future of Schwab's digital asset capabilities by defining and evolving business architecture supporting tokenized securities, blockchain-enabled trading, digital custody, asset transfers, and settlement services. As digital assets continue to emerge as a significant component of the financial services landscape, the team partners across business, operations, risk, compliance, and technology organizations to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions that support Schwab's long-term strategy. The objective of the team is to provide business architecture leadership for the modernization of trading, settlement, custody, and asset servicing platforms while promoting operational efficiency, risk management, and regulatory alignment. The team leverages deep business and technology expertise to evaluate emerging technologies, define future-state capabilities, and guide enterprise decision-making related to blockchain and digital asset infrastructure. The Digital Assets Business Architect plays a critical role in translating business strategy into scalable capability models and roadmap initiatives supporting digital asset products and services. This individual will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, helping define architecture strategies, evaluate platform opportunities, and support the delivery of enterprise-wide initiatives. The role requires strong knowledge of financial services, capital markets, trading and settlement processes, digital asset ecosystems, and business architecture principles. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication and organizational skills, strategic thinking capabilities, and the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization. The Digital Assets Business Architect serves as a primary partner between business, product, operations, risk, compliance, and technology organizations, supporting the evaluation, design, and implementation of digital asset capabilities. 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