Hybrid Associate Director - Engineering Lead, Golden Source at TIAA

 Required Skills: 

• Proven Leader with experience of managing agile team 

• Global outlook and mind set 

• Proven leadership of large global teams, with significant financial accountability 

• Strong cultural alignment: unwavering ethical standards; drives excellence and innately collaborative 

• Reputation as a forward thinker, especially in the technology and data space  

• Commercially astute: quickly recognizes the different levers to pull to drive growth and increase productivity 

• Strategic in nature, with a strong bias towards transformation and execution 

• Stimulates action with a balanced leadership style of control and influence 

• Decisive and operates with a sense of urgency 

• Program, risk, and change management experience 

• Agile proficient 

 Product and Tools based skills: 

• Knowledge of the GoldenSource product. Hands on experience with respect to creation and maintenance of Goldensource MDX, Workflows, Goldensource Custom Java rules, GSOs, UI and Publishing. 

• Deep Understanding of the Goldensoruce datamodel. 

• Experience in implementing and supporting the GoldenSource solution for mastering of Instrument data and Institution data. 

• Experience of code maintenance via any tools like GIT, BitBucket, SVN. 

• Hands on experience in onboarding and supporting new vendor data feeds right from data acquisition to distributing it to the downstream systems. 

• Knowledge on any scheduling tools like JS7, Autosys, Control-M etc. 

  Coding Knowledge: 

• Good relational database skills. POSTGRESQL, ORACLE. 

• Proficiency in scripting languages. Shell or Python to complement the existing Goldensource implementation. 

• Experience of working with XML based technologies such as XSLT is an added benefit. 

• Experience in integrating Goldensource workflows with external APIs is an added benefit. 

  Domain Knowledge: 

• Good understanding of financial instruments like Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives products and market data of these products. 

• Working knowledge of Instrument, Institution, Ratings level data provided by vendors such and Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Moody’s etc. 

• Knowledge on financial data standards like ISO, MIC, LEI etc. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Technology  

• Develop and implement an technology, data strategy and roadmap leveraging new technologies and innovation to deliver services globally 

• Accountable for strategic leadership of engineering and delivery execution for technology and data solutions 

• Working with our product teams create and manage a best in class roadmap which drives the leverage of new technologies with data at the core supporting client outcomes – custom built and FinTech/Protech solutions   

• In partnership with the Technology Product Leads, generate excitement and buy-in for the technology and data outcomes quickly, addressing barriers to success 

• As part of roadmap inform the build and partner decisions, and ensure these are funded, supported to enhance client deliverables and scale.   

• Partner with colleagues across the enterprise and with external vendors to delivery best in class solutions - measuring success in terms of adoption, usage, improvements and industry recognition.  

Business 

• Support the private markets and technology leadership to increase market-share and margin through technology 

• Implement a process for continuous improvement, lower costs to serve and improving margins 

• Develop and deliver scalable solutions that can be applied to clients and the business   

People  

• Lead a world-class team of experienced engineering and delivery experts within technology, data and business intelligence 

• Drive a passion and core competency across the organization for technology transformation  

• Coordinate comprehensive changes to update how we work or develop new ways of working 

• Set the priorities and focus for local and regional teams to support global engineering and delivery of core internal and client products and services 

Goldensource Platform: 

• Hands on involvement to implement the solutions to meet Nuveen's Reference data management requirements. 

• Optimization of the solutions implemented on the platform. 

• Be actively involved for resolution of technical and functional issues with the implementation. 

Solution Design and Maintenance: 

• Be actively involved in requirement gathering and design discussion for implementing the business requirements. 

• Maintain proper design and technical implementation documents for the custom solutions. 

• Ensure that custom implementation follows GoldenSource data modeling standards. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders and provide demos to required teams to ensure the implemented solution is verified 

Data management and validation: 

• Ensure that for any solution that is implemented on the Goldensoruce platform the data quality is maintained. 

• In addition to the requested business requirements, this includes ensuring that no unwanted notifications are raised during data ingestion and data duplicity does not happen. 

Release and BAU activities: 

• Be actively involved in the periodic release activities. 

• Participate in release planning meeting and actively communicate on deliveries planned for the periodic releases.