Mgr, Engineering - Integration & Engineering

Thrivent•Remote-Arizona, AZ

3d•$139,455 - $188,676•Remote

About The Position

The Manager of Engineering leads a team connecting insurance client product data across Thrivent. The role combines technical leadership with empathetic people management to set direction, deliver business outcomes, and develop engineering talent. In partnership with a product manager, staff engineers, and business and technology stakeholders, the manager plans several quarters ahead, aligns engineering priorities with organizational objectives, and removes barriers to delivery. The manager leads employees and contractors, fostering ownership, continuous learning, thoughtful experimentation, and engineer autonomy. Responsibilities include establishing team objectives and metrics, managing budgets and schedules, and applying company policies and operating procedures to support IT objectives. The role also contributes to product and platform strategy, engineering standards, DevOps, vendor decisions, and production support, while recruiting, coaching, and developing a high-performing team. The position models Thrivent’s leadership competencies of courage, collaboration, and commitment, and supports a culture of continuous improvement, employee engagement, client commitment, and alignment with Thrivent’s purpose, promise, and values.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
At least 8 years in progressively responsible Information Technology positions, including at least 5 years’ experience in an IT discipline such as customer relationship management or portfolio strategy and roadmap development.
At least 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.
At least 3 years of management or supervisory experience in a specific IT functional area, such as application development, or equivalent experience leading major technical projects with accountability for talent management needs and performance standards.
Core technical background in Java, API development and integration, RESTful APIs, and Kafka.
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 and external stakeholders in support of business initiatives.
Ability to work flexibly and exercise good judgment and sound decision-making, including when information is limited or conditions are challenging.
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.
Familiarity with AWS and exposure to and understanding of AI.

Responsibilities

Review technical solution designs and architecture, provide guidance, participate in system design discussions, and support solution execution.
Maintain a software development background, read code, keep current with best practices, and ensure code reviews are completed.
Promote sharing of ideas and best practices, create space for learning, and assess how technology trends and emerging technologies may affect the business.
Support agile practices, learning events, training, sprint demos, and the removal of team delivery barriers.
Partner with the Product Manager on initiatives, features, and epics; clarify desired outcomes and provide technical expertise; collaborate on strategies, operating plans, targets, and measures.
Create a positive team environment that supports psychological safety and respectful collaboration.
Empower teams to broker solutions across products, maintain consistent integration approaches, build peer relationships, and address cross-team challenges collaboratively.
Align the team with company and technology-organization priorities for the product area.
Participate in setting product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, and objectives; communicate the business value of technology upgrades and influence roadmap priorities.
Empower the team to select appropriate tools and platforms, promote engineering disciplines and continuous improvement, and contribute to enterprise frameworks and patterns.
Define and support development lifecycle processes, help resolve production incidents, promote observability, monitoring, and alerting, and maintain and improve technology product health.
Serve as a product-level escalation point for maintenance and production issues.
Help define technology and platform selection criteria, guide consensus and build-versus-buy decisions, and manage technology solutions, platforms, and vendor relationships.
Hold regular one-on-ones and team meetings; provide constructive feedback, coaching, career advice, development plans, and learning opportunities for engineers.
Select and engage consulting partners, plan for future staffing needs, collaborate on recruiting, and recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team.
Manage direct and indirect staff and promote shared accountability, operational excellence, partnership, employee engagement, and continuous improvement.
Manage budgets and schedules and apply company policies and operating procedures to support IT objectives.