Mgr, Engineering – Developer Productivity

🕒 July 29

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $139.5k - $188.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Thrivent

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1922

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

🛡️ Insurance

Banking • Finance • Insurance

Thrivent is a holistic financial services organization that provides advice, investments, insurance, banking, and generosity programs. With a mission to reimagine financial services, Thrivent helps individuals and communities thrive by viewing money as a tool rather than a goal. Serving over 2 million clients, Thrivent is dedicated to helping them build their financial futures while living meaningful lives. The company is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and it provides competitive compensation, professional growth opportunities, and programs to amplify generosity and impact. As a recognized leader in ethical financial practices, Thrivent has been named one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" by the Ethisphere Institute and is included in Forbes' list of America's Best Insurance Companies.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers responsible for platform engineering, developer experience, cloud-native development, automation, and operational excellence • Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on technical excellence and continuous improvement • Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across engineering teams • Promote knowledge sharing and mechanisms for learning from successes and failures • Influence engineering strategy and platform investments through data-driven recommendations and industry best practices • Define and drive the Internal Developer Platform roadmap • Build and evolve platform capabilities that simplify software delivery, improve consistency, and accelerate engineering velocity • Partner with engineering teams to understand workflow challenges and refine platform experiences based on feedback and usage patterns • Drive platform adoption through enablement, education, documentation, and hands-on engagement • Lead the strategy and evolution of self-service engineering capabilities • Translate developer pain points into platform capabilities, golden paths, paved-road experiences, and reusable engineering solutions • Enable engineers to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, manage services, and access development resources independently • Measure success through platform adoption, developer satisfaction, productivity gains, and reduced operational burden • Own the health, reliability, security, scalability, and sustainability of Engineering Productivity platforms and the Internal Developer Platform • Balance new capability delivery with maintenance, technical debt reduction, modernization, and legacy lifecycle management • Drive platform stability through monitoring, operational excellence, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement • Establish engineering standards, architectural guardrails, and platform governance practices • Evaluate emerging technologies, including Generative AI and AI-assisted development capabilities • Foster experimentation, continuous learning, and responsible innovation • Lead proof-of-concepts, pilot programs, and experiential learning initiatives • Identify opportunities to automate repetitive work, streamline delivery processes, and improve developer experience

🎯 Requirements

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, platform engineering, Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), and developer experience • Experience building, operating, and evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) at enterprise scale • Demonstrated success implementing golden paths, paved roads, self-service engineering capabilities, and developer productivity tooling • Experience defining platform success metrics, including adoption, developer satisfaction, deployment efficiency, lead time reduction, and friction reduction • Experience improving developer experience through platform engineering and adoption-focused product thinking • 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including developer productivity, developer experience, and software delivery platforms • 3+ years of leadership experience driving technical strategy, execution, and continuous improvement across engineering teams • 3+ years of people leadership experience leading technical teams responsible for shared engineering capabilities • Proven history of managing high-performing software engineering or platform engineering teams • Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects • Strong understanding of DevOps, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, developer portals, infrastructure automation, and software delivery platforms • Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems • Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders • Ability to function in an environment requiring flexibility and decision-making based on limited information • Ability to formulate, implement, and evaluate plans, programs, and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or another technical field, or equivalent work experience • Preferred: MBA • Preferred: Experience evaluating and implementing AI-assisted software development capabilities and developer productivity solutions • Preferred: Financial Services industry experience • Preferred: Experience in IT planning and business relationship management • Preferred: Experience working in a matrix management organization • Preferred: Experience with product development and management

🏖️ 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