Senior Data Solutions Architect: Data Ingestion & Data Lake

Thrivent Financial For Lutherans; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrivent Financial For Lutherans in Seattle seeks a Senior Solutions Architect who translates business goals into technology-enabled data solutions for the Thrivent Enterprise. You will lead design efforts, mentor teams, and influence senior stakeholders across domains.

This role focuses on scalable data ingestion, data lake integration, and architectural governance. You will collaborate with product managers and engineering leadership to balance pragmatism with long-term vision, driving

Responsibilities

• Think long-term and strategically.
• Delegate / Empower Tech Leads to low‑level design; collaborate with Tech Leads on high‑level solution design.
• Design/Solution for the use cases in your domain.
• Blueprint your domain use cases.
• Participate in discovery early on (it is not a hand‑off process).
• Review and time‑box the solutions ahead of time (2 sprints ahead).
• Apply and refine integration patterns (approved).
• Collaborate and influence other architects to align on data solution architecture — DEME principles and patterns.
• Influence to move toward the future state while being pragmatic—do not take shortcuts.
• Sell Data team strategy, principles, patterns, and adoptions.
• Partner with PO and EM on EPIC/features or tech platform strategy respectively.
• Co‑lead/Co‑chair any applicable CoP with Product Manager.

Job description

Thrivent Financial For Lutherans in Seattle seeks a Senior Solutions Architect who translates business goals into technology-enabled data solutions for the Thrivent Enterprise. You will lead design efforts, mentor teams, and influence senior stakeholders across domains.

This role focuses on scalable data ingestion, data lake integration, and architectural governance. You will collaborate with product managers and engineering leadership to balance pragmatism with long-term vision, driving