Director, Solutions Architect - Legal, Risk & Compliance

TIAA•Charlotte, NC

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This Architect role is focused on driving architecture strategy, roadmap development, and continuous evolution of TIAA's Legal, Risk & Compliance technology portfolio. The position involves defining capability maps, establishing reference architectures, and leading governance processes — partnering closely with Enterprise Architecture and business stakeholders to ensure all solutions align with company-wide standards and strategic objectives. A pivotal aspect of this role includes translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions, evaluating AI and automation opportunities — including GenAI and Agentic approaches — and guiding Build vs. Buy decisions to optimize cost, functionality, and time to value.

Requirements

8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Experience in financial services
Experience with cloud technologies, modern architecture patterns, and/or enterprise integration approaches.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
Preference for experience in Legal, Risk & Compliance, Finance, or HR technology domains.
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.

Responsibilities

Drive the development and continuous evolution of the spanning Legal, Risk & Compliance, architecture roadmaps.
Define capability maps that articulate current state, target state, and transformation pathways, while establishing reference architectures and design patterns that promote consistency, reusability, and scalability across the portfolio.
Partner with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure Legal, Risk & Compliance Technology solutions align with company-wide architectural principles and standards.
Lead architectural governance processes, represent the Legal, Risk & Compliance Functions Technology team in Technical Architecture Governance forums and the AI Center of Excellence, and ensure all solutions meet enterprise standards and strategic objectives.
Collaborate with business stakeholders across Legal, Risk & Compliance to translate business requirements into sound technical and architectural solutions.
Influence without formal authority to drive best practices and standards adoption across diverse stakeholder groups in a fast-paced environment.
Lead business process modeling and value stream analysis to identify optimization opportunities and support continuous improvement.
Develop and maintain business capability models and maturity assessments to surface gaps, inform investment decisions, and support TIAA's evolution toward a product-centric operating model.
Define Build vs. Buy decision principles and technology selection criteria tailored to Corporate Technology needs.
Prioritize evaluation of vendor AI solutions before committing to custom builds to optimize cost, functionality, and time to value.
Recommend AI and automation solutions — including GenAI and Agentic approaches — to close identified automation gaps and advance the multiyear technology roadmap.
Provide architectural guidance, oversight, and governance throughout the project delivery lifecycle.
Establish and maintain architectural documentation, standards, and guidelines that support consistent, scalable solution delivery.