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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\nApply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers\nAbility to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy\nDesign systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem. These patterns should align to high level engineering goals and business initiatives\nDeveloping Software\nUse 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.\nLeader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions\nLead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product\nLearning and Applying New Techniques\nSeek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.\nCollaborating within the Team\nCoordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems\nParticipate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team\nParticipate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed.\nContribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices\nCollaborating Across Teams\nBroker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes;\nContribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly\nCollaborating Across The Organization\nAct as an SME to provide over all operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise\nSetting product/platform technology strategy\nLead the design of critical path/technology for the product group. Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer\nProvide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization\nHelp to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.\nDefining Engineering Standards and Patterns\nPartner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices\nShare engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes\nDevOps\nLead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues\nContinuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software\nPromote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.\nSelecting & Managing Technology Vendors\nLead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software.\nProvide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.\nContribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.\nMentorship\nProvide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices\nServe as technical leader and subject matter expert on data engineering\nProvide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team\nPosition 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.\nRequirements: 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.\nSpecial skills/ requirements include:\nAt least 7 years of experience in data engineering working with Big Data Technologies: (1) Apache Spark or PySpark and (2) Hadoop.\nAt least 7 years of experience building Data pipelines (Batch or Streaming).\nAt least 5 years of experience working with Scripting Languages including Python or Shell Scripting.\nAt least 5 years of experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines using Github, Gitlab and Bamboo.\nAt least 4 years of experience working with JVM Languages including Java or Scala.\nAt least 4 years of experience working with Cloud technologies: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.\nAt least 3 years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Chef or Terraform\nAt least 3 years of experience with data streaming frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis\nAt least 1 year of experience working with modern datastack, using tools such as dbt, Databricks with Delta Lake or Snowflake.\n.At least 1 year of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.\nMust also have demonstrable experience in each of the following:\nExperience in ETL, SQL, Informatica Power Center, Databases like SQL server, DB2, Oracle\nExperience with Datawarehouse model with STAR, Snowflake and 3NF schema\nExperience with BI development and reporting.\nExperience with developing, executing test cases, UAT, and integration test.\nSalary: At least $180,000/year\nPosition 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.\nOther\nThrivent 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 otherstatus protected by applicable local, state,or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.\nThrivent iscommitted to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. 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