Engineering Manager - Data Enablement

Thrivent is hiring an Engineering Manager - Data Enablement to lead teams delivering and supporting technology solutions and platforms. The role guides engineering practices and technology strategy, partners across product and business teams, and coaches and develops a high-performing team.

Responsibilities:

• 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 supports the execution of the solution
• Has Developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices
• Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills
• Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities
• Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business
• 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
• Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas
• 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 solve collaboratively
• Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area
• Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments
• Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap
• Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area
• Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines
• Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability
• Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns
• Define and supports the development Lifecyle 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
• Be an advocate to the team to define criteria’s for selecting the right platform/technology
• Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection
• Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships
• Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meeting
• 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 which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities
• Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners
• Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process
• Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization
• 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
• Manage a team of direct and indirect staff

Requirements:

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