Associate Director - Architect Front Office

Expert Enterprise Architecture IN
The role is responsible for aligning the overall technology strategy and solutions with the business goals and objectives of the organization. They focus on the holistic view of the enterprise considering various aspects such as business processes information systems applications data management and technology infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Their main role is to design and maintain the architecture that enables the organization to meet its strategic objectives.
• They work closely with stakeholders including business leaders IT teams and solution architects to ensure that technology initiatives are inline with the organizations overall vision.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5 Years Required; 7 Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
9IC

Senior architect supporting our Trade Operations Technology Team. The role will work with our business product and engineering teams to identify and understand requirements and put in place a formal structure for solution designs ensuring our solutions meet day to day and future enterprise needs.

The role will work alongside our technology leads to implement solutions that align to our common enterprise goals sitting across an architectural domain and supporting a portfolio of products as part of our overall Nuveen Technology strategy for Trade Operations. This role will specifically focus on our Middle Office technology stack.

Supporting our Middle Office technology stack is an exciting time we are in the process of embarking on a multiyear technology review refresh and modernization where the technology we choose and the application and data architecture design we implement will become our foundation for the future. We are looking for someone to join our dynamic team as the senior architect supporting this transformation.

The role will be part of the wider Nuveen Architecture team that supports across our Nuveen Technology stack.

Ideal Candidate:

• Leads the design of complex architecture requirements from requirements analysis through to solution.
• Manages the design process inclusive of functions capabilities and performance understanding both technology and compliance requirements required by the enterprise.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams through an agile and iterative approach to design and delivery.
• Has worked as part of and with large global teams across multiple markets.
• Delivered projects where solutions are both offtheshelf solutions and where custom applications have been built out.
• Implements strategies and activities to deliver solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms operating systems and applications across the enterprise.
• Liaises with senior leaders to discuss the design of the technical architecture clearly to other leaders within the organization.
• Able to demonstrate experience and understanding of modern architectural patterns and design practice.
• Enjoys working in a dynamic work environment where innovation is at the center of how we work.

Required Skills:

• 5 years as a Solution Architect focused on designing and integrating enterprise class solutions both custom build and off the shelf.
• A background as an engineer primarily experienced in Java based delivery experience with .Net is a benefit.
• Experience working with Asset Management or Financial services industry and across various lines of business.
• University Degree

Preferred Skills:

• Currently a practicing solution architect.
• A practicing user of AWS services across both the application and data stack having completed and deployed projects within the past 12 months.
• Experience Designing end to end solutions.
• Experience working with Senior stake holders.
• Specific experience of the middle office technology stack and best practices implementations across the asset management industry

Related Skills

Application Programming Interface (API) Development/Integration Automation Communication Consultative Communication Containerization DevOps Enterprise Application Integration Influence Organizational Savviness Problem Solving Prototyping Relationship Management Scalability/Reliability Software Development Life Cycle Systems Design/Analysis

Company Overview

TIAA Global Capabilities was established in 2016 with a mission to tap into a vast pool of talent reduce risk by insourcing key platforms and processes as well as contribute to innovation with a focus on enhancing our technology stack. TIAA Global Capabilities is focused on building a scalable and sustainable organization with a focus on technology operations and expanding into the shared services business space.

Working closely with our U.S. colleagues and other partners our goal is to reduce risk improve the efficiency of our technology and processes and develop innovative ideas to increase throughput and productivity.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. TIAA does not discriminate against any candidate or employee on the basis of age race color national origin sex religion veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other legally protected status.

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