Onsite Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading modernization of Insurance Application processes across Life, Health, and Annuity at Thrivent. Collaborating with teams to drive architectural decisions and deliver scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Designing Solutions
  • Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.
  • Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.
  • Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution
  • Developing Software
  • Has Developed software.
  • Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.
  • Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills
  • Learning and applying new techniques
  • Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc.
  • They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.
  • Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business
  • Collaborating within team
  • Supports the team agile practices and learning events / trainings
  • Helps break down barriers for the team
  • Engages in sprint demos; Understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team
  • Partner with Product Manager on Initiatives/ Features/ Epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.
  • Collaborates with Product manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups
  • Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas
  • Collaborating across teams
  • Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products
  • Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal / outcome.
  • Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams
  • Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solve collaboratively
  • Collaborating across the organization
  • Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area
  • Setting product/platform technology strategy
  • Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments
  • Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap
  • Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.
  • Defining Engineering standards/patterns
  • Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.
  • Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability
  • Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns
  • DevOps
  • Define and supports the development Lifecyle processes
  • Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems
  • DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring and alerting
  • Understands the health of technology products and promotes prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve
  • Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues
  • Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
  • Be an advocate to the team to define criteria’s for selecting the right platform/technology
  • Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team.
  • In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection.
  • Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.
  • Coaching Engineers
  • Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meeting, Provides constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.
  • Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities.
  • Recruiting/building talent
  • Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners
  • Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process
  • Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.
  • 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.
  • Manage a team of direct and indirect staff

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
  • 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.
  • 3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards.
  • Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams.
  • Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects.
  • Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems.
  • Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives.
  • 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.
  • Ability to formulate, implement and evaluate plans, programs and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management.

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

Job title

Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$139,455 - $188,676 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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