Solution Architect, Insurance Solutions and New Markets
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)22 hours ago
Charlotte, NC, USA or Dallas, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$165k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and architect technology solutions for new insurance and lifetime income products.
- Lead design reviews and shape feasible requirements with product partners while products are still being defined.
- Own Well-Architected Framework Reviews, Impact Assessments, Solution Design Documents, and Architecture Decision Records.
- Participate in technology architecture governance and contribute to enterprise architecture direction.
- Communicate technical roadmaps and architecture decisions to stakeholders and senior leaders.
- Partner with business stakeholders, Cloud Engineering, Cyber, and adjacent technical domains to ensure solutions are compatible, secure, and supportable.
- Remain engaged through implementation and delivery, including building prototypes and resolving technical blockers hands-on.
- Use LLMs to pressure-test architecture tradeoffs, draft design documentation, and explore solution options.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in solution architecture or equivalent technical design roles.
- Experience in financial services, including retirement, insurance, or adjacent regulated environments.
- Experience with Java, Kafka, and/or containers such as EKS or equivalent.
- Experience designing products from evolving business direction and incomplete requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and design-consensus skills without formal authority.
- Understanding of how regulatory and compliance constraints affect architecture decisions.
- Familiarity with domain-driven, event-driven, API-first, and other cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Experience designing for performance, resilience, observability, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Proven use of LLMs in architecture decision-making, design tradeoffs, and documentation.
- A university degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards package including a superior retirement program and competitive health, wellness, and work-life offerings.
- Collaborative in-office work environment with opportunities for learning and development.
- Base salary range is $165,000 to $255,000 per year, with possible performance-linked incentive programs.
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About Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)
TIAA is a privately held, not-for-profit financial services organization providing retirement plans, annuities, IRAs, mutual funds, life insurance, 529 plans, and brokerage services to employees and institutions in education, healthcare, and the nonprofit sector. Founded in 1918 and headquartered in New York, it also offers investment management through its Nuveen subsidiary. Its revenue comes from fees on asset management, insurance, and brokerage services.