Asset Management Applications Engineer: Data & APIs

Thrivent Financial; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Health savings account

401k and pension

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Thrivent Financial is seeking an Application Engineer, Asset Management in Minneapolis, MN. You will contribute to development and maintenance of software applications and data solutions for the Investments organization, interfacing with portfolio managers, analysts, and operations teams.

The role involves building and supporting data pipelines, APIs, and integrations, mentoring peers, and ensuring 24x7 production reliability through agile practices and thorough documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, business, mathematics, or related field.
• 3+ years’ technical experience in application engineering, data engineering, or production support.
• Experience with development languages, tools and structures (e.g., Java, OpenShift, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, GitHub, PowerBI).
• Experience with vendor package implementation and system integration.
• Experience working with data pipelines, APIs, or system integrations.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for business applications (proprietary and/or vendor applications) including:Enhancement and/or new development work on projects.
• Upgrades to existing systems and platforms.
• Routine maintenance and support activities.
• Participation in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 support for production systems.
• Work collaboratively in a team environment with business partners, analysts, and other application engineers.
• Use established agile methodologies and tools to identify, verify, and document technical features supporting business-driven technology solutions.
• Develop, integrate, test, debug, and document application components using a variety of technologies.
• Install and deploy application components by following implementation and verification procedures to ensure successful production outcomes.
• Mentor other Application Engineers to develop skills and knowledge.
• Automate recurring processes involving data ingestion, transformation, validation, and reporting to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Support analytics platforms and environments used by data analysts, including managing dependencies and ensuring reproducibility.
• Maintain documentation for applications, data flows, and operational procedures.
• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain application components, data pipelines, and integrations supporting investment systems and analytics workflows.
• Build and maintain data integrations and pipelines supporting portfolio holdings, reference data, benchmark/index data, pricing, and performance-related workflows.
• Develop and support APIs and integrations across internal systems and external vendor platforms.
• Diagnose and resolve moderately complex issues across application code, data pipelines, APIs, databases, and infrastructure environments (Linux/Windows).

Skills

Java

OpenShift

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

GitHub

PowerBI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, business, mathematics, or related field

Job description

Thrivent Financial is seeking an Application Engineer, Asset Management in Minneapolis, MN. You will contribute to development and maintenance of software applications and data solutions for the Investments organization, interfacing with portfolio managers, analysts, and operations teams.

The role involves building and supporting data pipelines, APIs, and integrations, mentoring peers, and ensuring 24x7 production reliability through agile practices and thorough documentation.