Thrivent Financial

Mgr, Engineering

United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$139k-$189kDetected 30 days ago

Code ReviewDatabricksAWSCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsAI OrchestrationProject ManagementAgileCRMUnityLeadershipCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $139,455.00 - $188,676.00 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.
Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives.

Responsibilities

Review AI/ML and platform solution designs - classical ML, LLM/RAG, and agentic systems - and provide guidance on scalability, security, cost, and compliance across Databricks and AWS
Maintain strong technical fluency in AI/ML systems; able to read code and guide best practices across model integration, APIs, and platform services
Partner closely with Product Management to define strategies, operating plans, roadmaps, targets, and measures for the platform capabilities the team owns
Treat the platform as a product: understand the needs of Thrivent's delivery teams, drive adoption through enablement, documentation, and support, and measure success by customer outcomes
Support the team's agile practices; engage in sprint demos and understand both the outcomes sought and the technology delivered
Build strong working relationships with peers across teams; proactively identify cross-team challenges and empower teams to solve them collaboratively
Build evaluation and observability into the platform as first-class capabilities for LLM and agentic systems, including automated evaluation, drift monitoring, and tracing
Partner with model risk, security, and compliance functions to automate governance: risk-tier classification, policy-gated promotion, and audit-ready evidence
Stay ahead of trends in AI/ML, platform engineering, and cloud (AWS), assess their impact on business capabilities and strategy, and create space for teams to experiment with and adopt emerging techniques
Guide build-versus-buy decisions and tool selection for the team's capability areas; define selection criteria with the team and manage associated technology vendor and consulting relationships

Requirements

8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years' experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development.
3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management.
Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment, and intelligent decision making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams.
Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects.

Compensation

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 $139,455.00 - $188,676.00 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.

Benefits

Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents.
Help set the product and platform technology vision in partnership with AI engineering leadership; represent the business value of platform investments and influence prioritization in the roadmap

Company info

the platform is the product, delivery teams are its customers, and the team partners with Product Management to drive a capability roadmap measured by adoption and business outcomes.
This leader will inherit a working foundation - governed workspaces, feature stores, retrieval and RAG services, and standardized batch and real-time model serving - and help drive the platform's next phases: evaluation and observability for LLM and agentic systems, automated governance fit for a regulated financial services environment, agent development capabilities, and platform cost management.
The role will lead one or more platform capability areas (for example, model lifecycle and serving; GenAI and retrieval services; evaluation and observability; or agent platform), in partnership with AI engineering leadership and peer managers.
Success in this role is defined by building resilient, observable, and cost-efficient platform capabilities that delivery teams adopt and that deliver measurable business value, while fostering a strong, healthy engineering culture.
This leader will manage experienced engineers and specialists with significant autonomy, help establish the practices that shape how AI solutions are developed and operated at Thrivent, and lead critical conversations with internal and external partners in support of Thrivent's broader technology and business goals.
Hold regular 1:1s and team meetings; provide constructive feedback, guidance, and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience
Provide career planning advice and create development plans that leverage engineers' skills and capabilities and provide learning opportunities
Model Thrivent's leadership competencies of courage, collaboration, and commitment, while support ing a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise, and values, ensuring Thrivent's trust and reputation remain strong with its clients
Manage a team of direct and indirect staff

Equal opportunity

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.
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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