5 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$126k - $171k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead modernization of the Insurance Application Issue process across Life, Health, and Annuity business lines.
- Design scalable software architectures, system integrations, and cross-team implementation patterns.
- Drive technology strategy, architectural decisions, platform roadmaps, and build-versus-buy evaluations.
- Develop architecturally significant software components and identify useful development frameworks and libraries.
- Coordinate system and subsystem design across multiple product and engineering teams.
- Define and promote engineering standards, coding practices, reusable patterns, and technical documentation.
- Lead resolution of critical incidents and improve software stability, scalability, resilience, build, and deployment processes.
- Evaluate software vendors and platforms, including their effects on business processes and goals.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical training and demos, participate in recruiting, and support talent-development practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of experience in engineering environments translating business concepts into scalable, well-architected software solutions.
- Experience architecting solutions meeting performance, availability, reliability, and security requirements.
- Understanding of data and system integration patterns and data-driven application workflows.
- Proficiency managing large-scale technical initiatives and complex engineering efforts.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and systems concepts to engineers, product partners, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Strong conceptual, critical-thinking, technical, problem-solving, and engineering-judgment skills.
- Preferred: master’s degree in a related field and financial services experience.
- Preferred: proficiency in Java and familiarity with Python or R.
- Preferred: familiarity with modern technology stacks and cloud platforms.
- Preferred: experience with underwriting or decision-support systems, vendor evaluation, platform selection, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers.
Benefits
- Full-time role with a stated annual base salary range of $126,490.00–$171,134.00.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401(k); pension; life, accidental death and dismemberment, disability, and supplemental protection insurance.
- 20 days of paid time off, Sick and Safe Time, 10 paid company holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and paid parental leave.
- Employee assistance program, well-being benefits, and potential bonus or incentive programs subject to applicable plans and policies.
- Remote work is indicated by the posting’s #Remote designation.
About Thrivent
Thrivent provides financial advice, insurance, investment products, and banking services to individuals and families through a network of financial advisors and digital tools. The Fortune 500, privately held organization traces its roots to 1902 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN; it serves more than 2 million clients and runs donor-advised and generosity programs. Its revenue comes from premiums, asset management fees, and interest/spread-based banking income.