Hybrid Senior Engineer

at Thrivent

• Job title: Senior Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $104,063 - $140,793 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Minneapolis, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineer developing marketing technology solutions for Thrivent Asset Management. Collaborating across teams to provide technical expertise for business-critical software applications.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
• Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes
• Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.
• Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job
• Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation
• Helps team to understand and decompose work
• Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team
• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process
• Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems
• Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
• Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor
• Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills
• Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
• Provide trainings to the junior developers and groom them
• 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
• Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team
• 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
• 7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
• Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
• Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
• Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
• Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
• Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
• Perform code reviews with associate team members
• 5+ years experience with tag management systems (e.g. Adobe Launch, Tealium, Google Tag Manager etc.)
• Experience with Adobe Customer Journey Analytics configuration
• Experience with Adobe Experience Platform
• Financial Services industry experience
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

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