Mgr, Engineering - Identity Governance and Administration

Thrivent•Remote-Wisconsin, WI

2d•$139,455 - $188,676•Remote

About The Position

The Engineering Manager for Identity Governance and Administration leads a team of experienced engineers responsible for Thrivent’s IGA products and services. The role establishes team objectives, measures, operating practices, resource plans, and priorities aligned with Information Security and enterprise goals. The manager partners with Product Management, architects, and stakeholders across Technology, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, and the business to deliver secure, reliable, and audit-ready identity governance capabilities. The role provides strategic and technical direction, develops engineering talent, manages operational and financial responsibilities, and helps the team navigate complex cross-functional decisions. The position advances automation, infrastructure as code, observability, self-service, and end-to-end product ownership across the team. It owns the engineering health and evolution of IGA capabilities, including Saviynt, identity and entitlement data, access governance, lifecycle automation, and integrations with enterprise systems. The manager is also responsible for modern engineering practices, operational excellence, team development, and alignment of team objectives and investments with organizational priorities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology, including 5+ years’ experience in an IT discipline such as customer relationship management or portfolio strategy and roadmap development.
3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, such as IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy, or demand management.
3+ years’ management or supervisory experience in a specific IT functional area, such as application development, or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for talent management needs and performance standards.
Ability to lead engineering teams while maintaining strong technical involvement.
Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidisciplinary, 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.
Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to support business initiatives.
Ability to work in an environment requiring flexibility, good judgment, and intelligent decision-making, often with limited information or under extreme conditions.
Ability to formulate, implement, and evaluate plans, programs, and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and support a high-performing IGA engineering team through clear expectations, feedback, coaching, career development, and growth opportunities.
Create an inclusive environment that supports psychological safety, constructive challenge, and shared accountability.
Anticipate future talent and capability needs, recruit employees, and engage consulting partners as needed.
Model leadership competencies of courage, collaboration, and commitment through resilient leadership, sound decisions, and accountability.
Own the engineering health and evolution of IGA capabilities, including Saviynt, identity and entitlement data, access governance, lifecycle automation, and enterprise integrations.
Partner with Product Management to define strategy, roadmaps, priorities, measures, and outcomes balancing workforce experience, security, compliance, enterprise priorities, and long-term product health.
Improve workforce access through automation and self-service while maintaining effective, audit-ready controls.
Establish trustworthy identity, role, entitlement, and access data for automation, governance, reporting, and access decisions.
Guide technical strategy, solution design, and architecture with engineers and architects, ensuring solutions are secure, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Maintain sufficient technical depth to evaluate tradeoffs, ask meaningful questions, and support sound technical decisions.
Empower engineers to own technical decisions, code quality, and the products they build.
Evaluate technology trends, platform capabilities, and build-versus-buy decisions based on business value, security, sustainability, and total cost.
Advance modern engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing and deployment, observability, and reusable patterns.
Establish software-development lifecycle practices that enable safe, predictable, and frequent delivery.
Enable engineers to learn, experiment, improve practices, and contribute to shared engineering standards and patterns.
Promote outcome-based learning through demonstrations, operational measures, delivery data, and user and stakeholder feedback.
Maintain secure, reliable, and resilient IGA products through monitoring, alerting, incident response, problem management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
Use measures to understand product health, delivery performance, control effectiveness, and workforce access experience.
Serve as an escalation point for significant production issues while enabling engineers to lead diagnosis, resolution, and learning.
Ensure operational risk, technical debt, and lifecycle needs are visible and represented in product priorities.
Build trust-based relationships across Identity, Cybersecurity, Technology, Risk and Compliance, and business teams.
Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, barriers, and competing priorities through transparent communication and collaborative decision-making.
Help product and engineering teams incorporate identity capabilities into Thrivent systems using consistent, reusable, and low-friction approaches.
Manage team capacity, financial resources, vendor relationships, and delivery commitments responsibly.
Align team objectives and investments with Information Security, Technology, and enterprise priorities.