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Labor shed

DFW finance job market

Campus seats, hiring signals, and the AI overlay — with a Northeast DFW lens (McKinney, Frisco, Plano, Prosper, Allen). Snapshots as of late August 2026, sourced from company announcements and public career sites.

As of Aug 25, 2026
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The DFW finance job market is a campus market first: seats follow buildings in Westlake, Plano, Irving, Victory Park, and now Uptown. Tech, data/AI, wealth, and operations are hiring inside those campuses. Some large banks are also running AI-led efficiency programs, so the same metro can show expansion and cuts at once.

  • Campus seats are announced capacity, not today’s headcount. Goldman’s 5,000+ is a 2028 occupancy number.
  • JPMorganChase’s ~30,000 Texas employees are statewide, not Plano-only. Plano is the tech hub inside that footprint.
  • Job-board snapshots (LinkedIn, Indeed, career sites) are a pulse, not an official census. They move weekly.
  • Northeast DFW (McKinney–Frisco–Plano–Prosper, plus Allen) is the labor shed for Tollway campuses, captives, and fintech offices.

Campus seats (announced)

Capacity and official headcount where the company or a primary source published a number. Not a sum — Goldman’s 5,000+ is 2028 occupancy.

  • JPMorganChase

    Plano · ~30,000 Texas employees

    Statewide figure. Plano is the tech hub (software, data, AI) plus a large DFW commercial and wealth presence.

  • Goldman Sachs

    Dallas · 5,000+ campus capacity

    Second-largest U.S. office. NorthEnd / Victory Park. People in seats targeted 2028.

  • Charles Schwab

    Westlake · ~5,100 DFW jobs

    Corporate HQ on a 70-acre Circle T Ranch campus. Still one of the largest finance employers in the Metroplex.

  • Liberty Mutual

    Plano · ~5,000 jobs

    1.1M sq ft Legacy West campus — a Northeast corridor insurance and ops magnet.

  • Morgan Stanley

    Dallas · 3,800 announced; 1,500 first wave

    Fountain Place (downtown) first, then a planned Uptown tower at 2401 McKinney Ave. Construction slated to start fall 2026; Uptown occupancy later.

  • Fidelity Investments

    Westlake · Large regional campus

    332-acre Westlake campus next to Schwab. Active 2026 hiring across operations, advice, and technology.

  • Toyota Financial Services

    Frisco · 1,000+ seats

    New 242,000 sq ft tower occupied July 2026 on the Toyota North America campus.

  • Jack Henry

    Allen · Allen hub · 7,200 firmwide

    Core and digital banking vendor for community and regional institutions. Allen is the North Texas hub; hybrid roles posted through 2026.

Hiring signals

What public career sites and announcements were saying this month — not a job board.

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Function
  • AI / data
    Northeast
    Aug 20, 2026

    JPMorganChase

    Plano · Northeast DFW

    Plano tech hub hiring software, cloud/AI engineers, and Data & AI program talent.

    Plano is a named U.S. hub for the 2027 Software Engineer Program and ongoing AI/ML roles.

    JPMorganChase Careers
  • AI / data
    Aug 1, 2026

    Wells Fargo

    Irving · West DFW

    Irving posting Lead Applied AI, GenAI/agentic delivery, and AI platform roles — while the firm also signals 2026 efficiency cuts.

    Same metro, two tapes: AI build-out and headcount discipline.

    Wells Fargo / Yahoo Finance
  • Engineering
    Aug 22, 2026

    Charles Schwab

    Westlake · West DFW

    Westlake HQ hiring across client service, wealth, SRE, and AI engineering & operations.

    Hundreds of Metroplex postings on LinkedIn as of late August 2026.

    Schwab Jobs
  • Operations
    Aug 19, 2026

    Fidelity Investments

    Westlake · West DFW

    Westlake campus remaining a high-volume operations, advice, and early-career pipeline.

    Career-site and job-board inventory stayed open through August 2026.

    Fidelity Careers
  • Engineering
    Northeast
    Aug 24, 2026

    Bank of America

    Plano · Northeast DFW

    Plano/Addison technology and operations roles, including generative-AI platform engineering in Addison.

    Global Technology postings dated through 24 Aug 2026 on the BofA careers site.

    Bank of America Careers
  • Campus build
    Aug 20, 2026

    Morgan Stanley

    Dallas · Dallas core

    Regional HQ build: 1,500 jobs into Fountain Place first; 3,800 announced for the Uptown tower.

    Wealth, operations, and technology seats — the next large-cap campus after Goldman.

    New York Post
  • Campus build
    Aug 15, 2026

    Goldman Sachs

    Dallas · Dallas core

    Dallas careers site open now; campus designed for 5,000+ across all divisions by 2028.

    Hiring local talent ahead of NorthEnd occupancy — not waiting for the ribbon-cutting.

    Goldman Sachs Dallas
  • Engineering
    Northeast
    Aug 23, 2026

    Jack Henry

    Allen · Northeast DFW

    Allen hub posting finance, audit, program, and on-site production roles (hybrid and onsite).

    The community-bank tech stack is a Collin County employer, not just a vendor logo.

    Jack Henry Careers
  • Operations
    Aug 18, 2026

    Citigroup

    Irving · West DFW

    Irving remaining a processing, digital, and technology node with active 2026 postings.

    100+ Irving listings on public boards in August 2026 (pulse, not census).

    Citi Careers
  • Engineering
    Northeast
    Aug 12, 2026

    Alkami

    Plano · Northeast DFW

    Plano digital-banking SaaS HQ hiring product, engineering, and enterprise sales.

    The local alternative to the St. Louis / Kansas City core-processor story.

    Alkami Careers
  • Engineering
    Northeast
    Aug 24, 2026

    Capital One

    Plano · Northeast DFW

    Plano engineering, cyber-fraud intelligence, and auto-ops roles still posting.

    A tech-forward bank footprint on the same Tollway labor shed as JPM and Alkami.

    Capital One Careers
  • Engineering
    Northeast
    Aug 20, 2026

    Northeast corridor (aggregate)

    Plano / Frisco / McKinney · Northeast DFW

    Public boards showed hundreds of fintech-tagged roles in Plano and Frisco in August 2026 — product, data, and banking-suite work.

    Treat Collin County as one commute, not four separate markets.

    LinkedIn Jobs (Plano fintech)