Chief Enterprise Architect

TIAA•Frisco, TX

4d•$224,000 - $320,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Architect is responsible for refining and stewarding TIAA's Enterprise Architecture vision while providing architectural leadership across all lines of business. The role will balance strategic and tactical initiatives while leading the development of standards and patterns for software tooling, modern technology design principles, and reference architectures. This role plays a significant part in driving improved efficiency and cost savings across TIAA, fostering innovation, realizing strategy through solutions, managing risk and compliance, and increasing business agility.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Strengthen and maintain a centralized enterprise architecture practice and related processes, directly linked to federated architecture teams.
Coordinate with business-facing IT and application development to ensure architectural objectives are being considered and met.
Collaborate with other architects to define and maintain the enterprise blueprint for corporate architecture strategy and ensure integration between business units.
Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy.
Steward and maintain the organization's overall modern architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Act as a strategic enabler and champion for enterprise architecture and design principles.
Review and direct IT strategy ensuring alignment to business outcomes, fostering a culture of collaboration, development, and innovation.
Motivate and develops staff, fostering teamwork and collaboration.
Create an environment that promotes continuous learning and improvement.
Monitor external evolving technologies that will impact IT and the business and ensure adequate plans are in place to assure readiness.
Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to incorporate them into the organization's architecture.
Evaluate emerging Enterprise AI capabilities and provide guidance for responsible, scalable, and secure deployment of AI solutions, including Agentic AI and Generative AI technologies.
Maintain architectural metrics and KPIs and promote outcomes and results to the organization and senior leadership.
Lead review board and ensure solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models.
Articulate technology solutions and explain the competitive advantages of various technology alternatives.
Maintain architecture tools and repositories and manage the technology adoption workflow.
Develop long-term strategies and roadmaps in all architecture disciplines to meet IT and related business goals and identify risk scenarios and mitigation plans.