[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Thrivent

Role Description

An Engineering Manager in the Acquisition Portfolio leads a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, bridging technical expertise and product partnerships. The day involves being a hands-on technical partner to product management and tech leads, overseeing delivery, and maintaining hands-on technical understanding. This includes actively guiding architecture, code quality, and system design decisions to ensure scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.

Overall, the role requires providing strategic direction across teams, establishing operating practices, priorities, and metrics aligned with organizational goals. The manager interprets and applies company-wide policies within the context of engineering delivery, driving effective execution and continuous improvement. They collaborate closely with Product, business leaders, and senior stakeholders to translate complex compensation and advisor needs into well-designed technical solutions. Additionally, the manager leads technical discussions and forums that shape direction, ensure clarity, and support the delivery of business and technology outcomes. The team maintains and builds highly integrated products and experiences, requiring cross-functional collaboration across Thrivent.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 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
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives
• Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment and intelligent decision making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions
• Ability to formulate, implement and evaluate plans, programs and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management

Requirements

• MBA (Preferred)
• Financial Services industry experience (Preferred)
• Experience in IT planning and business relationship management (Preferred)
• Experience working in a matrix management organization (Preferred)
• Experience with product development and management (Preferred)

Benefits

• Various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• 401k
• Pension
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Disability insurance
• Supplemental protection insurance
• 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
• Sick and Safe Time
• 10 paid company holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• Paid parental leave
• EAP
• Well-being benefits
• Other employee benefits