Overall Tasks and Responsibilities
Overall, the role requires providing strategic direction across teams, establishing operating practices, priorities, and metrics aligned with organizational goals. The manager interprets and applies company-wide policies within the context of engineering delivery, driving effective execution and continuous improvement. They collaborate closely with Product, business leaders, and senior stakeholders to translate complex compensation and advisor needs into well-designed technical solutions. Additionally, the manager leads technical discussions and forums that shape direction, ensure clarity, and support the delivery of business and technology outcomes. The team maintains and builds highly integrated products and experiences, requiring cross-functional collaboration across Thrivent.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Designing Solutions
- 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
Developing Software
- Has Developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.
- Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills
Learning and applying new techniques
- Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.
- Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business
Collaborating within team
- 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
Collaborating across teams
- 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
Collaborating across the organization