[Hiring] Manager, Engineering - Data @Thrivent

Role Description

Accomplishes results primarily through management and/or experienced specialists who exercise significant latitude and independence. Provides strategic direction to one or more departments. Establishes operating policies and procedures that affect departments and subordinate sections, disciplines, and work units. Interprets company-wide policies and procedures. Develops budgets, schedules, and department objectives and metrics derived from organizational objectives. Collaborates and interacts frequently with internal and external key stakeholders and senior-level business partners concerning projects, operational decisions, scheduling requirements, and/or contractual clarifications. Leads briefings and technical meetings to support IT objectives.

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.
  • Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams.
  • Proactively identifies cross-team challenges and works to empower teams to solve 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
  • Collaborates with Engineers to ensure engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.
  • Promotes engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability.
  • Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.
• DevOps
  • Define and supports 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.
  • Provides constructive feedback, guidance, and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.
  • 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.
  • Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies.
  • Supports and/or develops an environment focused on continuous improvement and exceptional employee engagement.
• Manage a team of direct and indirect staff.

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 of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific 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.

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 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.
• Other employee benefits.