[Hiring] Manager Engineering @Thrivent

Role Description

The Manager, Engineering leads a product team focused on building and maintaining platforms that enable account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management services. This leader accomplishes results through the management of experienced technologists who operate with independence, while still providing technical leadership and strategic direction, establishing operating policies and procedures, and interpreting company-wide standards. The role is responsible for schedules and departmental objectives aligned with organizational goals, and collaborates frequently with internal and external stakeholders, including senior business partners, on projects and operational decisions. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with AWS cloud, Python, Lambda, and Postgres, and demonstrates technical expertise in data engineering and solution architecture. Success in this position requires mentoring and upskilling a growing team, driving adoption of modern engineering practices, and leading briefings and technical meetings to support IT objectives and deliver business value across the organization.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Designing Solutions
  • Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.
  • Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.
  • Review technical solution and support the execution of the solution.
• Developing Software
  • Has developed software.
  • Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.
  • Ensure code reviews are completed.
  • Problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Learning and applying new techniques.
  • Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc.
  • Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business.
• Collaborating within team
  • Supports the team agile practices and learning events/trainings.
  • Helps break down barriers for the team.
  • Engages in sprint demos; understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team.
  • Partner with Product Manager on initiatives/features/epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.
  • Collaborates with Product Manager for strategies, operating plans, targets, and measures for product groups.
  • Creates a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively.
• Collaborating across teams
  • Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products.
  • Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal/outcome.
  • Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams.
  • Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solving collaboratively.
• Collaborating across the organization
  • Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area.
• Setting product/platform technology strategy
  • Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives, and alignments.
  • Represents the business value of technology upgrades and influences prioritization in the product roadmap.
  • Empowers the team to select the right tools and platforms for the given product area.
• Defining Engineering standards/patterns
  • Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and advocate for engineering disciplines.
  • Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as DevOps and observability.
  • Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.
• DevOps
  • Define and support the development lifecycle processes.
  • Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems.
  • DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Understands the health of technology products and promotes prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve.
  • Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues.
• Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
  • Be an advocate to the team to define criteria for selecting the right platform/technology.
  • Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision.
  • Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.
• Coaching Engineers
  • Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meetings, providing constructive feedback, guidance, and coaching.
  • Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals.
• Recruiting/building talent
  • Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners.
  • Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups.
  • Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability.

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.
• 3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline.
• 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.
• Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment, and intelligent decision making.
• 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.
• 5+ years of experience in hands-on development with modern data tools and technologies such as Python, Lambda, AWS.
• Experience with data modeling, 3rd party vendor file management.
• Experience in IT planning and business relationship management.
• Experience working in a matrix management organization.
• Experience with product development and management.

Benefits

• Various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings account.
• Flexible spending account.
• 401k and 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 and well-being benefits.