Solutions Architect

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

Full Job Description

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance data ingestion solutions. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to gather requirements, creating detailed architectural plans, and ensuring seamless integration of diverse data sources into the Enterprise Data Lake. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, architecture, and a deep understanding of data management principles.

Responsibilities

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

Senior Solutions Architect Overview

The Senior Solutions Architect is a trusted advisor, influencer, and thought leader whose IT expertise and business knowledge combine to translate business objectives into technology‑enabled solutions that deliver the capabilities needed to achieve business results. They influence technology strategy and advise senior leaders based on knowledge and perspective, applying business, industry, and technical knowledge across multiple assets, domains, platforms, technologies, vendors, etc., to lead the delivery of innovative solutions. The Senior Solutions Architect provides leadership to appropriately support and maintain technology capabilities, collaborates across domains to understand business, information, and system implications, and is comfortable dealing with ambiguity while solving complex problems, driving innovation, and striving for continuous improvement. They focus on the broader Thrivent Enterprise while collaborating with leaders, verbally and in writing, to align business and technical concepts in an understandable way, and mentor, train, and coach staff.