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Principal Engineer shaping Thrivent’s Customized Experience Platform for web, mobile, and content experiences. Establishing architecture, standards, observability, and scalable engineering strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Establish the engineering vision and bridge strategic intent with scalable execution for the Customized Experience Platform (CEP)
- Drive technical direction and engineering strategy across experience channels, including content management, digital delivery, experimentation, mobile app engineering, platform observability, experience analytics, and developer experience
- Shape paved paths for teams building web, mobile, and content-driven experiences
- Design cross-channel solutions and architecture for CEP capabilities
- Solve complex customer-impacting problems using application and system data
- Develop architecturally impactful solution components and embed with CEP platform engineers to unblock implementation
- Create development frameworks and solution components that accelerate adoption of paved paths
- Research new techniques and best practices and share them across the organization
- Provide technical expertise, resolve complex problems, and remove technical roadblocks
- Participate in product planning and translate customer outcomes into technical strategy, capability roadmaps, engineering work, performance metrics, and experimentation opportunities
- Lead system design across multiple teams and broker solution design and implementation across product teams
- Promote technology standards and target architecture across teams
- Design, develop, document, and analyze enterprise systems architecture
- Create enterprise design patterns and provide technology insights for strategic technology vision
- Define high-level product/platform capabilities and provide platform technology expertise
- Establish engineering best practices and standards inside and outside Thrivent
- Participate in open-source contributions and meetups
- Lead critical incident resolution and proactively address production issues and outages
- Evaluate and execute CI/CD components to improve stability
- Consult on software solution and technology vendor evaluations
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, training, and demos to engineers
- Support recruitment and build Thrivent’s technology brand
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in an engineering role
- 5+ years of experience leading high performing technology teams
- Proven record establishing architecture, standards, and reusable patterns for customer-facing digital experience channels, such as web, mobile, content management, digital asset management, experimentation, observability, or devex capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated participation and leadership in the broader technology community
- Meet or exceed all expectations of a Lead Engineer role
- Preferred: Master’s degree in a related field
- Preferred: Financial Services industry experience
- Preferred: Coach / mentor other team members, particularly in building analysis skills such as metrics selection, strategy breakdown, and experimentation
Benefits:
- Various bonuses, including annual or long-term incentives
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Disability insurance
- Supplemental protection insurance
- 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
- Sick and Safe Time
- 10 paid company holidays
- Volunteer Time Off
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Well-being benefits
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