Manager Engineering at Thrivent

Job description

The Manager, Engineering leads a product team focused on building and maintaining platforms that enable account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management services. This leader accomplishes results through the management of experienced technologists who operate with independence, while still providing technical leadership and strategic direction, establishing operating policies and procedures, and interpreting company-wide standards. The role is responsible for schedules and departmental objectives aligned with organizational goals, and collaborates frequently with internal and external stakeholders, including senior business partners, on projects and operational decisions. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with AWS cloud, Python, Lambda, and Postgres, and demonstrates technical expertise in data engineering and solution architecture. Success in this position requires mentoring and upskilling a growing team, driving adoption of modern engineering practices, and leading briefings and technical meetings to support IT objectives and deliver business value across the organization. DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Designing Solutions Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction. Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions. Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution Developing Software Has Developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices. Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills Learning and applying new techniques Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities. Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business Collaborating within team Supports the team agile practices and learning events / trainings Helps break down barriers for the team Engages in sprint demos; Understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team Partner with Product Manager on Initiatives/ Features/ Epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise. Collaborates with Product manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas Collaborating across teams Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal / outcome. Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solve collaboratively Collaborating across the organization Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area Setting product/platform technology strategy Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area. Defining Engineering standards/patterns Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines. Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as DevOps nd observability Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns DevOps Define and supports the development Lifecyle processes Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring and alerting Unders