Manager, Engineering – Identity Governance and Administration

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

📋 Description

• Lead, nurture, and support a high-performing IGA engineering team through clear expectations, constructive feedback, coaching, career progression, and growth opportunities.

• Define team objectives, metrics, operating procedures, resource allocations, and priorities that align with Information Security and overall enterprise goals.

• Take ownership of the engineering health and progression of Thrivent’s IGA capabilities, which include Saviynt, identity and entitlement data, access governance, lifecycle automation, and enterprise integrations.

• Collaborate with Product Management to articulate strategy, establish roadmaps, set priorities, define metrics, and determine outcomes.

• Enhance workforce access through automation and self-service solutions while ensuring compliance with audit-ready controls.

• Establish reliable identity, role, entitlement, and access data.

• Direct the technical strategy, solution design, and architecture in collaboration with engineers and architects.

• Assess technology trends, platform capabilities, and make informed build-versus-buy decisions.

• Promote infrastructure as code, source control, automated testing and deployment, observability, and reusable engineering patterns.

• Implement software development lifecycle practices that ensure safe, predictable, and frequent delivery.

• Ensure secure, reliable, and resilient IGA products by overseeing monitoring, alerting, incident response, problem management, capacity planning, and ongoing improvements.

• Act as an escalation point for major production issues.

• Oversee operational risk, technical debt, lifecycle requirements, team capacity, financial resources, vendor partnerships, and delivery commitments.

• Foster relationships across Identity, Cybersecurity, Technology, Risk and Compliance, and various business teams.

• Address cross-team dependencies and integrate identity capabilities into enterprise systems.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in Information Technology, including over 5 years in a specific IT discipline.

• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience in all facets of a designated IT discipline.

• At least 3 years of management/supervisory experience in a specific IT functional area, or equivalent skills in leading major technical projects with accountability for talent management and performance standards.

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams while maintaining strong technical participation.

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

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

• Experience collaborating with clients to devise solutions to complex business challenges.

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

• Flexibility, sound judgment, and adept decision-making in challenging situations.

• Capability to formulate, implement, and assess plans, programs, and procedures related to customer relationship and demand management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Various bonuses, including annual or long-term incentives.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Flexible spending account.

• 401(k) plan.

• Pension plan.

• 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.