Senior Data Engineer — Pipelines & Observability (Remote)

Thrivent; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Medical insurance

Dental & Vision insurance

401k

Pension

Job summary

Thrivent is seeking a data engineer to develop core software and data pipelines, leveraging Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and Snowflake to deliver scalable data solutions. You will collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define data quality standards and drive technology strategy.

The role emphasizes independent execution, proactive problem solving, and mentoring junior engineers while contributing to Thrivent’s data architecture and analytics landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Applied Computer Science, MIS, CS or related field plus 5 years of progressive data engineering experience.
• Must have 5+ years with Hadoop, Spark, Spark streaming and Kafka.
• Must have 5+ years with Hive, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Snowflake and Databricks.
• Must have 3+ years with Python and Scala.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers.
• Work independently on initiatives aligned to software engineering strategy.
• Design and implement data quality frameworks with business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop core software delivering stability, scalability, and resilience.

Skills

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Hive

SQL Server

Snowflake

Databricks

Python

Scala

Data pipelines

Data quality

Education

Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Applied Computer Science / MIS / Computer Science

Tools

IICS

Informatica PowerCenter

Zena

Job description

Thrivent is seeking a data engineer to develop core software and data pipelines, leveraging Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and Snowflake to deliver scalable data solutions. You will collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define data quality standards and drive technology strategy.

The role emphasizes independent execution, proactive problem solving, and mentoring junior engineers while contributing to Thrivent’s data architecture and analytics landscape.