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
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.
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.
Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.
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.
