Engineering Manager - Data Enablement

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive architectural decisions and strategic direction across departments. You will collaborate with senior partners on projects, guide design discussions, and ensure robust execution of software initiatives.

The role emphasizes developer mentorship, DevOps practices, and a culture of learning, while aligning technology with business goals and product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience overseeing multiple departments or teams.
• Strong collaboration with senior business partners and stakeholders.
• Experience guiding technical strategy and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Designing solutions and providing guidance on architecture.
• Participate in system design and architecture discussions to land approaches.
• Review technical solutions and support execution; stay current with best practices.
• Read code and promote code reviews; solve problems analytically.
• Learn and apply new techniques; promote sharing of ideas and best practices.
• Anticipate technology trends and assess impact on business.
• Collaborate within the team and support agile practices.
• Engage in sprint demos and clarify outcomes and delivered tech.
• Partner with Product Manager on initiatives, features, and epics.
• Align product/Platform strategy with organizational priorities.
• Foster a positive team environment with psychological safety.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile

System design

Mentoring

Job description

Accomplishes results primarily through management and/or experienced specialists who exercise significant latitude and independence.

Provides strategic direction to one or more departments.

Establishes operating policies and procedures that affect departments and subordinate sections, disciplines and work units.

Interprets company-wide policies and procedures.

Develops budgets, schedules, and department objectives and metrics derived from organizational objectives.

Collaborate and interacts frequently with internal and external key stakeholders and senior-level business partners concerning projects, operational decisions, scheduling requirements, and/or contractual clarifications.

Leads briefings and technical meetings to support IT objectives.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing Solutions Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.
• Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.
• Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution Developing Software Has Developed software.
• Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.
• Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Learning and applying new techniques Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.
• Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business.
• Collaborating within team Supports the team agile practices and learning events / trainings Helps break down barriers for the team.
• Engages in sprint demos; Understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team.
• Partner with Product Manager on Initiatives/ Features/ Epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.
• Collaborates with Product manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups.
• Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other's ideas.
• Collaborating across teams Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal / outcome.
• Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solve collaboratively.
• Collaborating across the organization Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area.
• Setting product/platform technology strategy Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments.
• Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.
• Defining Engineering standards/patterns Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.
• Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability.
• Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.
• DevOps Define and supports the development Lifecyle processes Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring and alerting Understands the health of technology products and promotes prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve.
• Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues.
• Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors Be an advocate to the team to define criteria's for selecting the right platform/technology Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team.
• In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection. Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.
• Coaching Engineers Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meeting, Provides constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.
• Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities.
• Recruiting/building talent Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture.