CW Senior Lead Systems Architect

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA's family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 11 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-Lead Business Systems Analyst

The Lead Business Systems Analyst approves that designed system solutions are appropriate for business needs and consistent with the overall design of the organization's information systems architecture. Working closely with senior leadership, this job manages large projects, processes and establishes operational plans.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Provides senior level consulting services to business groups on process improvement projects designed to improve IT and business management results.
• Develops and implements new processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results.
• Participates in defining and formulating senior leadership's IT strategy through the review of business objectives and value proposition.
• Advises senior leadership on future business direction and aligns IT with business priorities, strategies, and operating models.
• Recommends solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
• Recommends long-term improvements and changes to organization's IT systems to support future business direction and growth.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level professionals.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

9IC

Additional Responsibilities

• Administration of CI Tools (Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube)
• Build/Enhance new capabilities and features to expand CI/CD tools offerings
• Ensure availability of the CI products
• Continuously monitor, maintain and optimize performance of CI Tools
• Work closely with vendor in addressing any major upgrades, plug-ins and critical tickets
• Continuous review and improve the DevSecOps CICD pipeline to ensure seamless end to end process from Build to Deploy across ALL SDLC and Prod environments
• Work with global teams across the organization to troubleshoot critical CI tools related issues
• Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across DevSecOps, CICD, Rapid Release and related end to end automation
• Stay current with relevant emerging technologies, assess application to DevSecOps Support challenges or opportunities determining business benefit and impact.
• Train and coach global team members to ensure proper Level1, Level2 support for the CI Tools.
• Perform POC on net new implementation of enterprise solutions
• Lead/support across teams to enhance developer driven DevSecOps delivery pipelines

Required Skills

• 5 or more years of working experience with Industry standard DevSecOps CI/CD Tools including: source code repository management, CI pipeline configuration, and/or binary repository management.
• 5 or more years of Development experience using either of the development platform (Java, Python, .NET, JS)
• 5 or more years of hands on experience in building, enhancing, and creating automation for a CI/CD pipeline
• 3 or more years of experience with working with either Maven or Gradle
• 3 or more years of experience performing complex troubleshooting and performance tuning of various issues within CI/CD tool chain using industry standard monitoring tools.
• 2 or more years of container experience
• 2 or more years of continuous testing practices and enablement through CI/CD pipeline
• Hands on knowledge on following tools.
  Groovy (must)
  Gitlab (must)
  Jenkins or equivalent CI Tool (must)
  Artifactory (must)
  Docker (must)

Preferred Skills:

• Well versed with SAFe/Agile
• Security, Audit, Compliance
• Cloud platform - AWS
• Experience working in financial services
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with OpenShift
• Experience with Security Scanning tools - CheckMarx, Twistlock, Synk, X-ray, Sysdig, Contrast Security any similar tools
• 1 or more years of site reliability engineering experience
• Experience in Java Application development, deployment, configuration, Unix and integration a plus

Related Skills

Start Date: 25-Sep-2023

End Date: 23-Sep-2024

Travel Required: No

Base Pay Range: $58.04/hr. - $80.88/hr.

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.

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