Staff Engineer

As Staff Engineer you will work independently and with your peers to translate customer needs into technical solutions. This role defines and drives the technical direction of enterprise engineering platforms, focusing on building scalable design and content enablement capabilities that are broadly adopted across the organization. You will do this through leveraging internal resources as well as prior industry experience. You will partner with IT leadership peers and enterprise-wide stakeholders to ensure solutions are built with a long-term vision and align with enterprise platform requirements. You will function as a force multiplier—raising the engineering bar through standardization, debt reduction, and resilient design patterns.

You will collaborate closely with IT leadership, product managers, and enterprise architecture to influence technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and ensure delivered solutions support long term platform scalability and business objectives.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Designing Solutions

Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers

Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy

Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem. These patterns should align to high level engineering goals and business initiatives.

Developing Software

Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer. Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making.

Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions

Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product

Learning and Applying New Techniques

Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.

Collaborating within the Team

Coordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems

Participate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team

Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed.

Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices

Collaborating Across Teams

Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes;

Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly

Collaborating Across The Organization

Act as an SME to provide over all operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise

Setting product/platform technology strategy

Lead the design of critical path/technology for the product group. Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer

Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization

Help to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices

Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes

DevOps

Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues

Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software

Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software.

Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.

Contribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.

Coaching Engineers

Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the product group

Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team

Recruiting and Building Talent

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

Take part in the Talent Captain role for the product group. This person also leads in how we interview.

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.

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QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

10+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver

Demonstrated expertise in developing scalable, reusable UI components with JavaScript or TypeScript.

Proven ability to configure, customize, and support Content Management Systems (CMS) to enable efficient content creation and delivery.

Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.

Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies

Experience with React, Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, GraphQL, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Terraform, Elasticsearch

Proficiency in managing large scale projects.

Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.

Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.

Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and/or deliver technical documentation.

Preferred:

Master’s degree in a related field

Familiarity with Digital Asset Management

Financial Services industry experience

Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

Pay Transparency

Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $126,490.00 - $171,134.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

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