Solutions Architect

Full Job Description

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance data ingestion solutions. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to gather requirements, creating detailed architectural plans, and ensuring seamless integration of diverse data sources into the Enterprise Data Lake. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, architecture, and a deep understanding of data management principles.

The Senior Solutions Architect is a trusted advisor, influencer, and thought leader whose IT expertise and business knowledge combine to translate business objectives into technology‑enabled solutions that deliver the capabilities needed to achieve business results. They influence technology strategy and advise senior leaders based on knowledge and perspective, applying business, industry, and technical knowledge across multiple assets, domains, platforms, technologies, vendors, etc.,

to lead the delivery of innovative solutions. The Senior Solutions Architect provides leadership to appropriately support and maintain technology capabilities, collaborates across domains to understand business, information, and system implications, and is comfortable dealing with ambiguity while solving complex problems, driving innovation, and striving for continuous improvement. They focus on the broader Thrivent Enterprise while collaborating with leaders, verbally and in writing, to align business and technical concepts in an understandable way, and mentor, train, and coach staff.