Staff Engineer

Thrivent

30d

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer, you will join a dynamic team focused on transforming and integrating complex brokerage and financial data across Thrivent’s digital ecosystem. You’ll work closely with others, supporting both production and new product development. The team is responsible for ingesting, transforming, and making financial data available for enterprise-wide consumption, leveraging a modern tech stack including AWS, Python, Java, APIs, and ETL tools. This role requires deep expertise in data engineering, especially with brokerage data and vendor APIs (Fidelity, Schwab, Investnet), and a strong understanding of financial integration components. You’ll be expected to drive enhancements, mentor peers, and ensuring solutions are scalable and aligned with Thrivent’s long-term vision. Success in this role means adapting to evolving business needs, collaborating with IT leadership and stakeholders, and championing best practices in Agile, DevOps, and reliability. Your ability to coach, build partnerships, and foster a high-performance culture will be key as the team continues to innovate and deliver impactful outcomes for the organization.

Requirements

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
Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.
Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies
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.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a related field
Financial Services industry experience
Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

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.