Staff Engineer

About the role

Work independently as individual contributor to translate customer needs into technical solutions through leveraging internal resources as well as prior industry experience. Partner with IT leadership peers and enterprise-wide stakeholders to ensure solutions are built with a long-term vision and align with enterprise platform requirements. Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to various IT methodologies including Agile, DevOps, and Reliability practices.

Designing Solutions

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

Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy

Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem. These patterns should align to high level engineering goals and business initiatives

Developing Software

Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer. Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making.

Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions

Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product

Learning and Applying New Techniques

• Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.
• Collaborating within the Team
• Coordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems
• Participate in team's collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed.
• Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices

Collaborating Across Teams

Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes;

Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly

Collaborating Across The Organization

• Act as an SME to provide over all operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise
• Setting product/platform technology strategy
• Lead the design of critical path/technology for the product group. Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer
• Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization
• Help to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices

Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes

DevOps

Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues

Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software

Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software.

Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.

Contribute in criteria's for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.

Mentorship

Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices

Serve as technical leader and subject matter expert on data engineering

Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team

Position is based out of and reports to Thrivent's HQ in Minneapolis, MN, but allows for the option to telecommute from a home office anywhere in the United States.

Requirements

Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or Data Science and Engineering and 7 years of progressively responsible, post baccalaureate experience as a data engineer, software engineer, or technology consultant in engineering environments.

Special skills/ requirements include

• *At least 7 years of experience in data engineering working with Big Data Technologies: (1) Apache Spark or PySpark and (2) Hadoop.
• *At least 7 years of experience building Data pipelines (Batch or Streaming).
• *At least 5 years of experience working with Scripting Languages including Python or Shell Scripting.
• *At least 5 years of experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines using Github, Gitlab and Bamboo.
• *At least 4 years of experience working with JVM Languages including Java or Scala.
• *At least 4 years of experience working with Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• *At least 3 years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Chef or Terraform
• *At least 3 years of experience with data streaming frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis
• *At least 1 year of experience working with modern datastack, using tools such as dbt, Databricks with Delta Lake or Snowflake.
• *.At least 1 year of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.

Must also have demonstrable experience in each of the following

• *Experience in ETL, SQL, Informatica Power Center, Databases like SQL server, DB2, Oracle
• *Experience with Datawarehouse model with STAR, Snowflake and 3NF schema
• *Experience with BI development and reporting.
• *Experience with developing, executing test cases, UAT, and integration test.

Salary

At least $180,000/year

Other

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.

The following benefits may be offered

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, and other employee benefits.

Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent's plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent's discretion.