Sr Engineer, Enterprise Integration Services

Thrivent•Minneapolis, MN

3d•$104,063 - $140,793•Remote

About The Position

At Thrivent, we are focused on a digital transformation that will deliver modern, innovative experiences for our clients, financial advisors, and employees. We are investing in data and technology, using DevOps practices, and building an engineering culture of empowered technical experts. Our technologists are involved in work that includes cloud native development, digital architecture and integration, automation, cloud data platforms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning as well as maximizing platforms such as Salesforce, AWS and Microsoft. Our EIS Platform team is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team. If you can relate to "Automator of all things and destroyer of click-ops", then this might be the perfect job for you! Our team has an established commitment to DevSecOps as we automate Thrivent’s API gateway & event streaming platform using Terraform, AWS, Datadog, and more. We’re the team responsible for building, automating, and optimizing the platform that hosts Thrivent’s Enterprise REST services. If you’re excited and passionate about APIs, events and platform automation, apply today!

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

Nice To Haves

Financial Services industry experience
Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

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.