[Hiring] Principal Engineer - Identity and Access Management @Thrivent

Role Description

As a Principal Engineer (PE) within Identity & Access Management (IAM), you will champion and influence long-term vision for identity security in an AI-enabled enterprise. This role is focused on lifting Thrivent’s IAM capabilities by providing technical leadership for Thrivent's Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy, enabling teams to deliver secure, scalable, observable, and low-friction identity capabilities across the enterprise.

The leader will strengthen IAM maturity through enterprise standards, reusable patterns, and modern identity services that can be consistently adopted across portfolios. Success in this role will be measured by the organization’s ability to deliver identity-enabled capabilities more safely and consistently.

As the organization's senior IAM technical authority, this role will shape the future of digital trust by addressing emerging capabilities such as:

• Agentic AI
• Generative AI
• Machine identities
• Autonomous systems
• Digital workforce technologies

The role drives the evolution of authentication, authorization, governance, and identity-centric security, ensuring teams can securely consume IAM capabilities through scalable, composable, and product-oriented services rather than one-off implementations.

In addition, this leader is responsible for building and maturing the IAM organization's governance, detection, monitoring, and operational oversight capabilities, enabling proactive management of identity risk, policy compliance, privileged access activities, and emerging identity-based threats across the enterprise.

You will operate at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, enterprise architecture, and product engineering, translating rapidly evolving technology trends into secure, scalable, and resilient identity capabilities so that teams can adopt, operate, and stay up to date with consistent, versioned offerings.

The role requires deep expertise in:

• Identity architecture
• AI-enabled threat models
• Enterprise security design
• Strategic systems thinking

You will influence technology direction across portfolios, establish enterprise standards and guardrails, mentor engineering leaders, and partner with executive stakeholders to ensure Thrivent's identity ecosystem remains secure and future-ready and aligned to product/platform outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field.
• Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy.
• Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering.
• Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

• Proven ability to evaluate protocols, practices, and patterns based on enterprise fit, risk management, operability, and adoption at scale.
• Advance adaptive authentication and risk-based access decisions informed by behavioral analytics, AI-driven risk signals, device posture, and contextual intelligence.
• Knowledge of Agentic AI architectures, AI agents, machine identities, non-human identities (NHI), autonomous systems, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Experience establishing governance, authorization, accountability, and trust models for autonomous actors.
• Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS).

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