Sr Data Engineer

Thrivent is a company committed to helping people thrive with purpose. As a Sr Data Engineer, you will be a technical expert responsible for designing and developing business-critical software solutions while collaborating with teams to drive outcomes and improve engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
• Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes
• Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc
• Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job
• Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work
• Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team
• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process
• Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems
• Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
• Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor
• Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills
• Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
• Provide trainings to the junior developers and groom them
• Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team
• Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
• Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
• Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients
• Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
• Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
• Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
• Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
• Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
• Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
• Perform code reviews with associate team members
• Financial Services industry experience
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate