Engineering Manager – Digital

As an Engineering Manager, you will deliver results through the leadership of experienced engineers and specialists who operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability. This role leads an engineering team supporting advisor‑facing digital experiences, including advisor profiles, advisor search, and advisor‑to‑client matching within the Connections product space. You will provide strategic and operational direction aligned to organizational objectives, establish team‑level practices and operating norms, and partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to drive discovery, prioritization, and delivery.

The Engineering Manager is responsible for developing team objectives, metrics, and capacity plans, fostering strong engineering culture and feedback practices, and translating enterprise policies into clear guidance that enables teams to deliver high‑quality, discoverable, and scalable solutions that advance Thrivent’s digital advisor experience.

• Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction
• Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions
• Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution
• Tie solutions back to user impact and business objectives

• Has Developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices
• Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to tie practical engineering experience into mentorship of engineering staff

• Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc.
• Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business
• Adept at connecting new techniques to the team that promotes organic adoption

• Supports the team agile practices and learning events / trainings
• Helps break down barriers for the team
• Engages in sprint demos;
  Understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team
• Partner with Product Manager on Initiatives/ Features/ Epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.
• Collaborates with Product manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups
• Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas

• Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products
• Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal / outcome
• Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams
• Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solve collaboratively

• Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area

• Leads in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments
• Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap
• Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area
• Can tell the story of how our technical strategy delivers positive outcomes for our product from a user centric perspective

• Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices are clear and effective
• Promote engineering practices and continuous improvement (both in our processes and our products)
• Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns
• Proactively intervene when standards are not being followed and correct the behavior or process

• Be an advocate to the team to define criteria’s for selecting the right platform/technology
• Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. In a buy decision, works…