Senior Director, Portfolio Architect – Corporate Technology

Sr Dir, Portfolio Architect – Corporate Technology 
The Portfolio Architect for Corporate Technology will lead the architectural strategy and design for TIAA’s Corporate Technology ecosystem, encompassing Law and Policy, Risk & Compliance, Finance, Audit, Corporate Services, and People Team technology platforms. This role will drive the holistic development and integration of technology capabilities across the corporate portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles while enabling business transformation and operational excellence.  

BACKGROUND 
TIAA is on a journey to modernize and transform Business and Technical Capabilities into next generation capabilities leveraging cloud and advanced techniques. The Portfolio Architect will serve as a key partner to Corporate Technology stakeholders, working closely with the Enterprise Architecture function, business leaders, and cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions that support TIAA’s corporate functions.  

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• 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.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience

• 8 Years Required; 10 Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
10IC

Required Skills: 

• 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. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related