Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical direction for Thrivent's Engineering Productivity ecosystem.

• Take ownership of the vision, strategy, and development of platform capabilities that empower engineers to build, deploy, and manage software more efficiently.

• Balance innovation in the platform with operational excellence, ensuring that engineering productivity capabilities are reliable, secure, scalable, and easy to maintain.

• Collaborate closely with engineers, architects, product leaders, and platform teams to identify and address developer pain points.

• Drive the strategy and advancement of self-service engineering capabilities that enhance the software development lifecycle.

• Establish and manage the roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform, ensuring it provides measurable value across engineering teams.

• Continuously assess emerging technologies, tools, and engineering practices to elevate software quality and developer productivity.

• Offer architectural guidance and technical leadership across various engineering teams.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 8 years of progressive experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, or related technology areas, demonstrating a history of enhancing engineering effectiveness and operational results.

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

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in people leadership, guiding technical teams responsible for shared engineering capabilities, with proven success in talent development and fostering technical excellence.

• Experience in building, operating, and enhancing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) at an enterprise scale.

• Proven success in implementing golden paths, paved roads, self-service engineering capabilities, and tools that enhance developer productivity.

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

• Experience in improving developer experiences through platform engineering and product thinking focused on adoption.

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

• Strong project management skills with the ability to execute multiple or large-scale projects.

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

• Experience collaborating with customers to create solutions for complex business challenges.

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

• Proven capacity to thrive in a flexible environment and make decisions based on limited information.

• Ability to formulate, implement, and evaluate plans, programs, and procedures relevant to customer relationship and demand management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Various bonuses (including, for instance, annual or long-term incentives).

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Flexible spending account.

• 401k.

• Pension.

• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Supplemental protection insurance.

• 20 days of Paid Time Off each year.

• Sick and Safe Time.

• 10 paid company holidays.

• Volunteer Time Off.

• Paid parental leave.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Well-being benefits.

• Additional employee benefits.