Thrivent

Staff Engineer – HR Technology

Thrivent

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Minnesota • United States

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Salary

💰 $126,490 - $171,134 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Designing Solutions
  • Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
  • Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
  • Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem.
  • Developing Software
  • Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer.
  • Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making.
  • Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions
  • Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product
  • Learning and Applying New Techniques
  • Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.
  • Collaborating within the Team
  • Coordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems.
  • Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems
  • Participate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
  • Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed.
  • Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices
  • Collaborating Across Teams
  • Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes; Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly
  • Collaborating Across The Organization
  • Act as an SME to provide overall operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise
  • Setting product/platform technology strategy
  • Lead the design of critical path/technology for the product group.
  • Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer
  • Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization
  • Help to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.
  • Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns
  • Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices
  • Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes
  • DevOps
  • Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues
  • Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software
  • Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
  • Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
  • Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software.
  • Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.
  • Contribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.
  • Coaching Engineers
  • Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the product group
  • Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps within the team
  • Recruiting and Building Talent
  • Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
  • Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
  • Take part in the Talent Captain role for the product group. This person also leads in how we interview. Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
  • Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
  • Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in engineering environments
  • Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.
  • Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies
  • Proficiency in managing large scale projects
  • Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.
  • Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.
  • Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and/or deliver technical documentation.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
software designsystem integrationsoftware architectureCI/CD pipelineproject managementdata integrationperformance SLOshigh availabilityreliabilitysecurity
Soft Skills
critical thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipmentoringcoachingattention to detailarticulationcontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science