Thrivent Financial

Principal Engineer

United States · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$161k-$218kDetected 19 days ago

CI/CDDevOpsLeadershipCritical ThinkingMentoring

About the role

As a Principal Engineer, this role provides technical thought leadership across the insurance portfolio, guiding engineering teams through complex, existing systems while strengthening architecture, patterns, and code reusability.
Implementing Solutions - Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer.
May do this through PoCs or full implementations.

Designs and evolves complex systems with an enterprise perspective, understanding dependencies, integration patterns, operational considerations, and downstream impacts across the insurance ecosystem.
Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions.
Drop into teams to create engineering structures/patterns that enable the team to work collaboratively and effectively.
Creates new development frameworks and collaborates with the team to create solution components.
Challenges existing assumptions and drives continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify, modernize, and transform technology solutions.
Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders while building organizational engineering capability.
Technical leader in system design across multiple teams; Provides broad and/or deep expertise in collaborating across teams to create solutions that lead to outcomes.
Lead alignment across business and technology stakeholders, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform strategy to drive enterprise-scale outcomes.
Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes for the most critical technology and/or strategic priorities for the organization.
Define the high-level capabilities requirements for the product/ platform and collaborate with the teams across the organization.

10+ years of experience in an engineering role with demonstrated success leading complex enterprise initiatives across multiple product domains
Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
5+ years of experience leading high performing technology teams
Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
Financial Services industry experience
Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate
Pay Transparency
Thrivent's long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose.
Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives.
That extends to our benefits.
Thrivent's plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent's discretion.
This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.
Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.

We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent.
The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $161,436.00 - $218,415.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions.
The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents.
Demonstrates curiosity and learning agility by rapidly assessing new approaches, determining business value, and helping the organization adopt innovations that improve outcomes.
Learning and Applying New Techniques
Shapes the long-term technology vision by identifying architectural investments, modernization opportunities, and platform capabilities that enable future business growth.

Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.

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