Staff Engineer

As a Staff Engineer, you will partner with product, engineering, and stakeholders to translate customer needs into scalable, long-term technical solutions. You will leverage your expertise to influence architecture decisions, drive modernization efforts, and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and strategic goals. You will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance while promoting Agile, DevOps, and AI-driven development practices. Working across teams, you will help foster a culture focused on impact, execution, and continuous improvement. We value collaboration, shared ownership, and continuous learning. Our team empowers engineers to solve customer problems, explore emerging technologies, contribute new ideas, and make a meaningful impact on both technology and business outcomes.           DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:  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. Coaching Engineers Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices   Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the product group Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team Recruiting and Building Talent 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 Take part in the Talent Captain role for the product group. This person also leads in how we interview. 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.   ​ QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:    Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience  10+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver  Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.   Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies  Proficiency in managing large scale projects.  Ability t