TIAA

TIAA

Data Architect – Sales & Marketing Technology

Chicago, IL, USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Data StructuresSQLSnowflakeCI/CDMachine LearningAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationStatisticsComplianceAccessibilitySalesforceCRMLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • We invest in the growth of businesses, real estate, infrastructure and natural capital, providing clients with the reliability, access and foresight unique to our heritage.
  • They influence every decision we make and how we work together to serve our clients every day.
  • We thrive in a collaborative in-office environment where teams work across organizational boundaries with shared purpose, accelerating innovation and delivering meaningful results.

Responsibilities

  • Designs, builds, and curates reusable data products within Snowflake that serve as authoritative sources for downstream systems including Salesforce, Sitecore, and Tableau, ensuring contracts, SLAs, and consumption patterns are well defined.
  • Partners with data engineering teams on ingestion patterns, transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt), orchestration, and CI/CD practices to ensure efficient, well-tested, and observable data pipelines feeding Snowflake.
  • Develops and maintains dimensional models, star and snowflake schemas, data vault structures, and semantic layers that power business intelligence in Tableau, personalization in Sitecore, and operational use cases in Salesforce Sales and Marketing Clouds.
  • Supports integration of data from multiple structured and unstructured sources, including third-party intermediary data providers (e.g., Broadridge, Salesforce Asset Management Cloud feeds, DST, SS&C), institutional data sources, market and benchmark data, CRM, marketing automation, and digital engagement platforms.
  • Conducts data profiling and quality analysis to identify gaps, redundancies, and integrity issues, and drives remediation through model and pipeline improvements.
  • Communicates data architecture designs, trade-offs, and roadmaps to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and cross-functional business partners.
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  • TIAA maintains a drug-free and smoke/free workplace.
  • Our prevailing perspective on the future drives our ambition to innovate and adapt our business to the changing needs of investors - all to pursue lasting performance for our clients, our communities and our global economy.
  • At TIAA, we're on a mission to build on our 100+ year legacy of delivering for our clients while evolving to meet tomorrow's challenges.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and operating data products with clear ownership, contracts, documentation, and consumer SLAs, ideally within a data mesh or domain-oriented architecture.
  • experience with data modeling tools (Erwin, SqlDBM, or similar), transformation frameworks such as dbt, and orchestration tools (Airflow, Matillion, or equivalent).
  • Familiarity with data governance frameworks, data quality management practices, and metadata/catalog tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan), and with regulatory considerations relevant to asset management.

Nice to have

  • Monitors and tunes Snowflake for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency, applying best practices around warehouse sizing, clustering, materialized views, caching, and workload isolation.
  • Provides guidance and mentorship to data modelers, engineers, and analysts on cloud data architecture, modeling techniques, and asset management domain concepts.
  • University (Degree) Preferred
  • 5+ Years Required
  • 7+ Years Preferred
  • Preferred Skills:

Skills

  • Related Skills
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Compensation

  • $118,000/yr - $149,000/yr
  • Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.
  • In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

Benefits

  • That's why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to make a positive difference in the lives of our associates and their loved ones.
  • To learn more about your benefits, please review our Benefits Summary.
  • Here, every associate can grow through meaningful learning experiences and development pathways-because when our people succeed, our impact on clients' lives grows stronger.
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Company info

  • Champion Our People, Be Client Obsessed, Lead with Integrity, Own It, and Win As One.
  • The organization is committed to making financial well-being possible for its clients, and is equally committed to the well-being of our associates.
  • Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being.

Equal opportunity

  • 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.
  • Our full EEO & Non-Discrimination statement is on our careers home page, and you can read more about your rights and view government notices here.
  • If you are a U.S. applicant and desire a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application please use one of the below options to contact our accessibility support team:
  • Phone: (800) 842-2755
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