[Remote] Manager, Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is seeking a Manager of Engineering to lead the Advisor Hub product and engineering team. This role involves providing technical leadership, establishing engineering standards, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software aligned with business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across the Advisor Hub platform
- Lead architecture and design discussions to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable
- Review solution designs, technical proposals, and code to ensure engineering quality and alignment with enterprise standards
- Guide engineering teams in selecting appropriate technologies, frameworks, and build-versus-buy decisions
- Stay technically current and maintain credibility through active participation in engineering discussions and solution reviews
- Partner closely with Product Management and UX to translate business outcomes into well-designed technical solutions
- Establish engineering standards, delivery practices, and technical roadmaps aligned to organizational priorities
- Champion Agile product development practices and continuously improve engineering execution
- Remove organizational and technical impediments that impact team delivery
- Drive consistent, predictable delivery of high-quality software
- Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, Git-based source control, automated testing, observability, monitoring, alerting, and deployment automation
- Define and continuously improve software development lifecycle processes
- Promote secure software development, code quality, technical debt reduction, and operational excellence
- Monitor application health, production stability, and performance while ensuring appropriate prioritization of reliability improvements
- Serve as an escalation point for complex production issues and incident response
- Build strong partnerships with Product Management, UX, Architecture, and business stakeholders
- Align engineering priorities with organizational objectives and product strategy
- Foster collaboration across engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions across the advisor ecosystem
- Represent technology considerations during roadmap planning and investment discussions
- Influence product direction by identifying opportunities enabled through technology innovation
- Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing engineers
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance conversations, and career development planning
- Foster a culture of psychological safety, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
- Encourage innovation, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and continuous improvement across the organization
- Build an inclusive, collaborative environment where individuals are empowered to do their best work
- Evaluate technology platforms and vendor solutions
- Guide platform selection decisions based on business value, scalability, security, and long-term maintainability
- Manage technology vendor relationships supporting the Advisor Hub platform
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering enterprise applications on Salesforce Sales Cloud, including a strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), security, data model, integration patterns, and modern DevOps practices including Git-based source control, automated CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation
- 5+ years of software engineering experience developing enterprise applications using modern technologies such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, APIs, OpenShift, AWS, or similar cloud-native technologies
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in Information Technology, including software engineering, application development, product delivery, or related disciplines
- 3+ years leading engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and talent development
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise software using Agile product delivery methodologies
- Experience guiding architecture decisions and maintaining technical credibility through code reviews, design reviews, and engineering leadership
- Demonstrated success implementing modern engineering practices including DevOps, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders
- Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with execution while leading multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- MBA or advanced technical degree
- Financial services or wealth management industry experience
- Experience leading engineering teams within a product operating model
- Experience incorporating AI capabilities, generative AI, or intelligent automation into enterprise applications
- Experience working within large enterprise and matrix organizations
- Experience with technology strategy, portfolio planning, and business relationship management
- Experience remaining hands-on when appropriate through prototyping, troubleshooting, or technical coaching
Benefits
- Various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- 401k
- 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
- EAP
- Well-being benefits
- Other employee benefits
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