Engineering Director - Wealth Management

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This role leads the Wealth Management product group within the Digital Advisor Experience (DAX), responsible for the core wealth platforms, services, and data foundations that power advisor and client experiences across the enterprise. The teams in this product group build and scale investment and portfolio management capabilities, governed product access, broker dealer and trust enablement, and enterprise wealth data-providing the critical building blocks that other product teams rely on to deliver seamless, compliant, and high-quality wealth experiences. Success in this role requires strong platform thinking, cross portfolio collaboration, and a passion for enabling experiences at scale. The Engineering Director leads a team that has responsibility for implementing/modernizing and owning the technology in this product group. They set the technology strategy, create the engineering culture, build high performing teams, manage & develop talent, break down barriers and empower teams to deliver. The Engineering Director has accountability for their teams delivering high quality technology solutions that enable strategic outcomes for Thrivent. They own end-to-end engineering accountability for Wealth Management platforms, including build, run, and optimize. This role is also responsible for collaborating across the enterprise to achieve outcomes and for leading change with a continuous improvement mindset. This can be a remote position within the US. Job Duties & Responsibilities: Designing Solutions Sets the vision for the teams and empowers the teams to design solutions Review the overall / high level design and provide feedback to the team. Helps the team to understand the architecture strategy for the given product groups and how it fits in the overall enterprise architecture. Developing Software Demonstrates critical thinking towards developing software. Learning and applying new techniques Influence the team to use modern techniques and share technical insights to the team Continuously seek for innovative techniques and solutions to solve the business problems / initiatives. Collaborating within team Promotes collaboration and provides opportunities to recognize and celebrate successes Collaborating across teams Regularly engages in product group sprint demos to understand capabilities delivered and outcomes achieved; Provides constructive feedback to foster continuous improvement Encourages engagement across product groups to share learnings and leverage best practices Understands the organizations broader technology ecosystem and how their product groups contribute to the organization's outcomes Breaks down product group barriers that impede team delivery and continuous improvement Collaborating across the organization Builds relationships across the organization and across business and technology disciplines Brings teams together to partner in solving the most strategic and complex problems for the organization and deliver new capabilities collaboratively Creates a common understanding and alignment on goals and strategies for the enterprise as well as for the technology organization Provides senior leadership visibility to accomplishments of teams Supports the organizational rollout of new DevOps capabilities and version updates across the teams. Setting product/platform technology strategy Partner with product management to set the platform / product technology vision and outcome. Provide mentorship and motiviation to the team to select and execute on the technology strategy that supports the organization growth and sustainability Defining Engineering standards/patterns Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as devops and observability " DevOps Supports the development lifecyle processes and operational model guidelines Ensures that operational health for the area is well articulated and supports continuous improvement. Creates and promotes cross learning opporutnities for engineers to onboard new DevOps practices." Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors Be an advocate to the team to define criteria's for selecting the right platform/technology Owns the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships Provide directions and feedback to select the right technology vendors Coaching Engineers Holding regular 1:1s with direct reports and periodic skip levels and team meetings. Provides opportunities and develops framework for career growth. Gives constructive feedback, providing guidance and coaching to help engineering managers grow their skills and experience Recruiting/building talent Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process Drive the hiring process for engineering managers and engineers and participates in the recruitment process for the product area Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and po