Mgr, Engineering

Platform Ownership & Reliability

• Own the health reliability security scalability and long-term sustainability of Thrivents Engineering Productivity platforms and Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

• Balance delivery of new capabilities with platform maintenance technical debt reduction modernization efforts and lifecycle management of legacy solutions.

• Drive platform stability through proactive monitoring operational excellence reliability engineering practices and continuous improvement.

• Establish andmaintainengineering standards architectural guardrails and platform governance practices that support enterprise-scale adoption.

Developer Experience & Self-Service Engineering

• Lead the strategy and evolution of self-service engineering capabilities that improve the software development lifecycle and reduce developer friction.

• Translate developer pain points into platform capabilities golden paths paved-road experiences and reusable engineering solutions.

• Create intuitive scalable solutions that enable engineers to provision infrastructure deploy applications manage services and access development resources independently.

• Measure success through platform adoption developer satisfaction productivity gains and reduced operational burden rather than feature output alone.

Internal Developer Platform Leadership

• Define and drive the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform ensuring it delivers measurable value across engineering teams.

• Build and evolve platform capabilities that simplify software delivery improve consistency and accelerate engineering velocity.

• Partner with engineering teams to understand workflow challenges and continuously refine platform experiences based on feedback and usage patterns.

• Drive adoption initiatives through enablement education documentation and hands-on engagement with engineering teams.

Engineering Productivity & Modernization

• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies tools and engineering practicesincluding Generative AI and AI-assisted development capabilitiesto improve software quality and developer productivity.

• Foster a culture of experimentation continuous learning and responsible innovation.

• Lead proof-of-concepts pilot programs and experiential learning initiatives thatvalidatenew platform capabilities before scaling.

• Identifyopportunities to automate repetitive work streamline delivery processes and improve the overall developer experience.

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across engineering teams.

• Mentor and coach engineers on platform engineering developer experience cloud-native development automation and operational excellence.

• Promote knowledge sharing and create mechanisms for teams to learn from successes and failures.

• Influence engineering strategy and platform investments through data-driven recommendations and industry best practices.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Scienceor other technical field or equivalent work experience

• 8 years of progressive experience in software engineering platform engineering infrastructure or related technology disciplines witha track recordof improving engineering effectiveness and operational outcomes.

• 3 years of leadership experience driving technical strategy execution and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

• 3 years ofpeopleleadership experience leading technical teams responsible for shared engineering capabilities withdemonstratedsuccess developing talent and fostering technical excellence.

• Experience buildingoperating and evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) atenterprisescale.

• Demonstrated success implementing golden paths paved roads self-service engineering capabilities and developer productivity tooling.

• Experience defining platform success metrics including adoption developer satisfaction deployment efficiency lead time reduction and friction reduction.

• Experience improving developer experience through platform engineering and adoption-focused product thinking.

• Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline high-performance work teams.

• Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects.

• Strong understanding of platform engineering DevOps cloud-native architectures CI/CD developer portals infrastructure automation and software delivery platforms.

• Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems.

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives.

• Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibilitywith the ability to make decisionsbased on limited information.

• Ability to formulate implement and evaluate plansprogramsand procedures applicable to customerrelationshipand demand management.

Preferred:

• MBA

• Experience evaluating and implementing AI-assisted software development capabilities and developer productivity solutions.

• Financial Services industry experience

• Experience in IT planning and business relationship management

• Experience working in a matrix management organization

• Experience with product development and management