Thrivent Financial

Principal Engineer

United States · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$161k-$218kDetected 30 days ago

CI/CDDevOpsResearchLeadershipCollaborationCritical ThinkingMentoring

About the role

As a Principal Engineer in Engineering Productivity, you provide technical leadership that shapes how engineering capabilities evolve across the enterprise.
This role emphasizes improving the developer experience by helping teams assess their current state, learn new approaches and patterns that reduce unnecessary complexity, and practice those improvements through real delivery work.
Implementing Solutions - Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer.

Creates the overall design /architecture for the team and articulates the components, interactions between the components /between product groups.
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.
Leads the initiative to research new techniques along with best practices and share it across organization.
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.
Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes for the most critical technology and/or strategic priorities for the organization.
Expert in design, developing, documenting and analyzing overall architecture of systems, including hardware and software. Work in collaboration with other product teams to provide technical expertise to engineers across the company.
Define the high-level capabilities requirements for the product/ platform and collaborate with the teams across the organization.
Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
10+ years of experience in an engineering role
5+ years of experience leading high performing technology teams
Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated participation and leadership in the broader technology community
Master's degree in a related field
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.

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.
Learning and Applying New Techniques
Creates design patterns for the enterprise and provides technology insights that guide the strategic technology vision for the organization.

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

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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