Remote Engineering Manager

Thrivent; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 139,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Health savings account

Pension

Disability insurance

10 paid company holidays

Job summary

Thrivent is seeking an experienced IT leader to drive policy, architecture, and execution across product and platform teams on a full-time basis in the United States. You will collaborate with senior business partners, lead technical briefings, and empower teams to adopt the right tools and practices while aligning with corporate strategy.

The role requires 8+ years in IT, 3+ years in leadership and 3+ years in management within specific IT disciplines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development.
• 3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g., IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management.
• 3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards.
• Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams.
• Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects.
• Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems.
• Ability to formulate, implement and evaluate plans, programs and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with Product/Portfolio teams to set strategy and roadmaps for IT products and platforms.
• Review technical solutions and support execution of IT initiatives.
• Promote engineering practices, DevOps, and observability across teams.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop talent; plan for future staffing needs across product groups.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Project management

Stakeholder collaboration

DevOps awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or technical field

MBA

Job description

Thrivent is seeking an experienced IT leader to drive policy, architecture, and execution across product and platform teams on a full-time basis in the United States. You will collaborate with senior business partners, lead technical briefings, and empower teams to adopt the right tools and practices while aligning with corporate strategy.

The role requires 8+ years in IT, 3+ years in leadership and 3+ years in management within specific IT disciplines.