Manager, Engineering – Product Acquisition

🕒 September 24

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $139.5k - $188.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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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

• Define and drive Thrivent’s Wealth Management and Insurance Product technology strategy and execution • Lead and mentor a team of engineers • Collaborate with engineering teams on strategy, product operating mode adoption, operational excellence, DevOps/engineering maturity, and platform implementation • Review technical solution designs for architectural alignment and provide team guidance • Participate in system design and architecture discussions • Read code, stay current with best practices, and ensure code reviews are completed • Promote learning, idea sharing, best practices, and continuous improvement • Analyze technology trends and assess the business impact of emerging technologies • Support agile practices, learning events, and training • Partner with Product Managers on initiatives, epics, and features to clarify outcomes and provide technical expertise • Collaborate on product strategies, operating plans, targets, and measures • Align the team with company and technology organization priorities • Set product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives, and alignments • Represent the business value of technology upgrades and influence product roadmap prioritization • Guide tool and platform selection and build-versus-buy decisions • Promote engineering best practices, DevOps practices, and automation • Contribute to enterprise frameworks and patterns • Define and support software development lifecycle processes • Remove barriers to resolving production incidents and problems • Ensure observability, monitoring, and alerting practices • Serve as an escalation point for product-level support, maintenance, and production issues • Manage technology solutions, platforms, and vendor relationships • Conduct regular one-on-ones and team meetings • Provide feedback, coaching, career planning, and development plans for engineers • Lead consulting partner selection and engagement • Plan for future staffing needs and collaborate on recruitment • Recruit, develop, and sustain a high-performing team • Manage direct employees and consultants

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience • 8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology, including 5+ years’ experience in software development, portfolio strategy and roadmap development • 3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in a specific IT functional area discipline, or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards • Demonstrated experience and leadership introducing and growing a Product Operating Model (Agile/Scrum) • Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams • Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects • Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems • Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives • Proven ability to function in an environment requiring flexibility, good judgment and intelligent decision making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions • Ability to formulate, implement and evaluate plans, programs and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management • Direct experience in Life, Health and Annuity insurance products, delivering technology for Financial Advisors (preferred) • Series 99 license or above (preferred)

🏖️ 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