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About the role
- Senior Director, Portfolio Architect managing Corporate Technology architecture at TIAA. Overseeing development of enterprise-level architectural strategies while ensuring operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and evolution of the Corporate Technology architecture roadmap, encompassing Law and Policy, Risk & Compliance, Finance, Audit, Corporate Services and People Team technology ecosystems.
- Define and maintain capability maps for Corporate Technology functions, identifying current state, target state, and transformation pathways.
- Create reference architectures and design patterns that promote consistency, reusability, and scalability across the corporate portfolio.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture team to ensure Corporate Technology architectures align with/contributes to enterprise-wide architectural principles, patterns in support of company standards.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and delivery organizations across Legal, Risk & Compliance, Finance, and People teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications and architectural solutions.
- Lead business process modeling and value stream analysis to understand current state processes across Corporate Technology functions, identifying optimization opportunities and supporting process improvement initiatives.
- Create models for mapping Corporate Technology functions as compositions of platform capabilities, supporting TIAA’s evolution toward a product-centric operating model.
- Define principles for Build/Buy decisions and technology selection criteria specific to Corporate Technology needs.
- Drive architectural governance processes to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, strategic objectives and good architecture practices.
- Influence without authority to drive architectural best practices and standards adoption across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Develop and maintain business capability models and capability maturity assessments for Corporate Technology functions, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement while supporting capability-based planning and investment decisions.
- Establish and maintain architectural documentation, standards, and guidelines for Corporate Technology.
- Support project delivery by providing architectural guidance, oversight and governance throughout the development lifecycle.
- Represent the Corporate Functions Technology team in the Technical Architecture Governance and the AI Center of Excellence (COE) processes.
Requirements
- 8 + years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
- Experience in financial services, with preference for experience in Legal, Risk & Compliance, Finance, or HR technology domains.
- Experience with cloud technologies, modern architecture patterns, and/or enterprise integration approaches.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant field.
- Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives in complex, regulated environments.
- Experience with enterprise architecture tenants including Technical Debt Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Products Portfolio Management.
- Ability to influence without authority and drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups in fast paced evolving environments.
- Experience with Domain Driven Design, Data Mesh, AI, Gen AI, Agentic and capability-driven architecture methodologies.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience in executive stakeholder management.
- Experience working in individual contributor roles while providing technical leadership across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
- Bonuses
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