Mgr, Engineering - Integration & Engineering

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is seeking a Manager of Engineering to lead an engineering team building and integrating insurance client product data. The role blends deep technical understanding with empathetic people leadership to set direction, deliver outcomes, and grow engineering talent.

You will partner with Product, Staff Engineers, and stakeholders to shape plans for the next few quarters, prioritize work, and remove barriers to delivery while fostering ownership and continuous

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and contractors, balancing technical guidance with people leadership.
• Set direction and objectives, align priorities with business goals, and remove delivery barriers.
• Collaborate with product managers, staff engineers, and stakeholders to plan quarters ahead.

Job description

As the Manager of Engineering you will lead the engineering team that connects insurance client product data across Thrivent. As a manager, you will combine your deep technical understanding with empathetic people leadership to set direction, deliver business outcomes, and develop engineering talent. Working closely with a product manager, staff engineers, and key business and technology stakeholders, you will shape plans a couple of quarters ahead, align engineering priorities with organizational objectives, and remove barriers to delivery.

You will lead a team of employees and contractors, fostering ownership, continuous learning, and thoughtful experimentation while balancing technical guidance with engineer autonomy. You will establish team objectives and metrics, manage budgets and schedules, and apply company policies and operating procedures to support IT objectives. Success in this role requires proactive problem-solving, effective stakeholder collaboration, and the ability to grow talent while building a shared strategy and vision.

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.

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