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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Tiaa-Cref Individual & Institutional Services, LLC
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $110,614.0 - $177,986.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Databases, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cloud Services, Snowflake, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Amazon Relational Database Service, Performance Monitor, Apache Kafka, Data Objects, Api Gateway, Terraform
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://tiaa.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Search/job/Charlotte-NC-USA/Senior-Data-Engineer_R260700397-4

## About the Role

* University (Degree) Preferred, * 5 to 8 years of experience in Python backend development.

 * Expertise in Snowflake and other DB tools.

 * Expertise in AWS services, Terraform.

 * Experience with ETL frameworks and tool

 * Experience with Kafka, event-driven architecture.

 * Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Nice to have:

 * Experience in Loan Asset class

 * Experience in Private Placements

## Description

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 4 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-IT Applications Developer IV
Develops, implements and assesses specific new and emerging technologies, platforms, and services., * Assessing the technical viability of emerging products and technologies.

 * Working with developers and infrastructure specialists to test and evaluate new technologies.
 * Participating in the development of business cases and obtaining approvals for capital expenditures.
 * Monitoring and analyzing new technology product performance and resolving issues regarding potential improvements or modifications to complex situations, as needed., * Develop and maintain Snowflake data objects

 * Design and optimize databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

 * Deploy and manage cloud solutions on AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Airflow).

 * Implement CI/CD pipelines, security best practices, and performance monitoring.

 * Lead technical discussions, mentor developers, and drive best practices., 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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