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TIAA

Managing Director, Data Platform Engineering

AI summary of the role

Executive leadership role owning the strategy, engineering, and operations of TIAA's enterprise data platform, leading a global organization of 100+ employees and partners.

What you’ll do

  • Own the target-state architecture, engineering strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the enterprise data platform, aligning to business and AI priorities.
  • Deliver scalable, modular, cloud-native platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns to enable platform-as-a-service for federated teams.
  • Partner with governance, security, and risk teams to translate policies into automated platform controls covering access, quality, metadata, and privacy.
  • Establish engineering standards and automation across observability, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and reliability for 24x7x365 operations.

What you’ll bring

  • 10+ years of technology and data platform engineering experience
  • 10+ years as a senior technology leader leading large, globally distributed engineering organizations
  • 3+ years of recent AWS experience
  • 3+ years of recent Snowflake experience

Technologies

AWS · Snowflake · infrastructure-as-code · CI/CD · DevSecOps · observability · data governance · GenAI · agentic technologies · containerization

Source and classification

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The Data Platform Engineering leader is accountable for the strategy, engineering, delivery, reliability, adoption, and continuous evolution of the TIAA’s enterprise data platform and its foundational capabilities. This executive will lead a global organization of 100+ employees and strategic partners responsible for creating a secure, governed, resilient, and self-service data platform that enables enterprise and federated teams to rapidly build, operate, discover, and consume trusted data products and AI-enabled solutions. The role will oversee the platform engineering across platform solutions, data engineering tools and reliability, governance/security/privacy enablement, developer and business user experience, and AI-enabled platform engineering. The leader will establish clear capability ownership and drive the organization towards a scalable, capability and product-based
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The Data Platform Engineering leader is accountable for the strategy, engineering, delivery, reliability, adoption, and continuous evolution of the TIAA’s enterprise data platform and its foundational capabilities. This executive will lead a global organization of 100+ employees and strategic partners responsible for creating a secure, governed, resilient, and self-service data platform that enables enterprise and federated teams to rapidly build, operate, discover, and consume trusted data products and AI-enabled solutions. The role will oversee the platform engineering across platform solutions, data engineering tools and reliability, governance/security/privacy enablement, developer and business user experience, and AI-enabled platform engineering. The leader will establish clear capability ownership and drive the organization towards a scalable, capability and product-based platform model. Key Responsibilities and Duties Platform Strategy & Roadmap Own the target-state architecture, engineering strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the enterprise data platform, aligning investments to business, Data, Analytics, Governance and AI priorities. Platform Engineering & Modernization Deliver scalable, modular, cloud-native platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns that simplify architecture, reduce duplication, accelerate data-product delivery, and enable platfo [... source excerpt omitted ...] nior leadership forums, translating complex technology choices into business implications, investment decisions, risk trade-offs, and measurable enterprise outcomes. Operations & Production Support Provides Tier 2 and Tier 3 engineering support, ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology, including managing vendor escalations to resolve production issues and minimize business impact. Educational Requirements University (Degree) Preferred Work Experience 10+ Years Required Physical Requirements Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work Career Level 11PL POSITION SUMMARY: The Managing Director – Data Platform Engineering is accountable for the strategy, engine [... source excerpt omitted ...] al depth with strategic portfolio oversight, ensuring delivery excellence, 24x7x365 operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and innovation aligned with firm standards. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Platform Strategy & Roadmap Own the target-state architecture, engineering strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the enterprise data platform, aligning investments to business, Data, Analytics, Governance and AI priorities. Platform Engineering & Modernization Deliver scalable, modular, cloud-native platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns that simplify architecture, reduce duplication, accelerate data-product delivery, and enable platform as a service for federated teams.

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