Analyst - Data Engineering

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA); Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) is seeking a detail-oriented Data Engineering Analyst to join its Marketing & Communications Data Engineering team. This role focuses on implementing large-scale data projects that support marketing analytics, campaign measurement, brand research, and customer insights initiatives.

You will work with marketing technology, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality data is accessible, reliable, and actionable, building

Qualifications

• University degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with data pipelines and data quality controls.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms.
• Knowledge of marketing analytics tools (GA, SFMC, CRM data) is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines that support marketing analytics, campaign performance measurement, brand tracking, and customer segmentation initiatives.
• Collect, process, and deliver large-scale marketing and customer data to the user community, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Resolve systemic data errors, monitor the marketing data ecosystem, and develop strategies to scale data solutions.
• Implement and monitor automated data quality controls to maintain data integrity across marketing data platforms.
• Identify syntax, structure, and semantics for each marketing data source and document findings for stakeholder use.
• Manage cyclical production releases by maintaining accurate and up-to-date documentation and communicating known data issues to marketing and analytics stakeholders.
• Support data governance and stewardship initiatives in alignment with TIAA's enterprise data strategy.
• Collaborate with marketing technology, analytics, and business teams to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable data engineering solutions.
• Assist in curating clean, consistently defined datasets and metadata that can support semantic data layers and responsible AI consumption.

Skills

Python

SQL

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Marketing data platforms

Data quality concepts

ETL/ELT concepts

API/File transfer pipelines

Problem solving

Education

University degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented and technically strong Data Engineering Analyst to join TIAA's Marketing & Communications Data Engineering team. This role is responsible for implementing large-scale, complex data projects that support marketing analytics, campaign measurement, brand research, and customer insights initiatives. The analyst will work closely with marketing technology, analytics, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality data is accessible, reliable, and actionable. Working under direct supervision, this contributes to building and maintaining scalable data pipelines that power TIAA's marketing and communications strategies.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines that support marketing analytics, campaign performance measurement, brand tracking, and customer segmentation initiatives.
• Collect, process, and deliver large-scale marketing and customer data to the user community, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Resolve systemic data errors, monitor the marketing data ecosystem, and develop strategies to scale data solutions.
• Implement and monitor automated data quality controls to maintain data integrity across marketing data platforms.
• Identify syntax, structure, and semantics for each marketing data source and document findings for stakeholder use.
• Manage cyclical production releases by maintaining accurate and up-to-date documentation and communicating known data issues to marketing and analytics stakeholders.
• Support data governance and stewardship initiatives in alignment with TIAA's enterprise data strategy.
• Collaborate with marketing technology, analytics, and business teams to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable data engineering solutions.
• Assist in curating clean, consistently defined datasets and metadata that can support semantic data layers and responsible AI consumption.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• No Experience Required

Career Level

5IC

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Python, and SQL for data extraction, transformation, and validation.
• Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud-based data platforms like AWS etc.
• Understanding of data quality concepts, API/File Transfer based data pipelines, and ETL/ELT processes.
• Familiarity with marketing data platforms like Google Analytics, SFMC, or CRM data is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.
• Good communication skills to interact with both technical and business stakeholders across marketing and technology functions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Python for data automation, transformation, or validation tasks.
• Exposure to marketing analytics platforms or marketing data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with data governance tools and practices.
• Experience working with large and complex datasets.
• Basic familiarity with AI/ML data preparation, semantic or logical data layers, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts is a plus.
• Exposure to responsible AI, AI governance, feature stores, vector databases, or semantic-layer tooling such as dbt is a good to have.