Jobs at Thrivent Financial

Associate Engineer supporting the Money Movement team by designing, developing, testing, and maintaining modern applications. The role involves Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, databases, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and production support. Candidates will collaborate with experienced engineers, participate in code reviews, learn engineering standards, explore AI-assisted development tools, and continuously build technical skills through feedback and hands-on problem solving.

Leads multiple Scrum and product teams, coaches teams and Product Owners, facilitates Agile ceremonies, removes impediments, manages product roadmaps and delivery initiatives, and drives cross-functional collaboration. The role oversees progress, risks, budgets, metrics, stakeholder communications, process improvement, and Agile center-of-excellence activities while ensuring products are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business priorities.

Leads digital product strategy, roadmap, discovery, acquisition, and conversion optimization for Thrivent.com. Owns growth metrics, funnel performance, experimentation, SEO/SEM insights, and customer journey improvements. Partners with design, engineering, analytics, marketing, content, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Recruits, coaches, and supervises 1–4 product owners while managing priorities, budgets, stakeholder alignment, and long-term product vision.

Leads accounting, financial reporting, and operational process improvements across Controller and Treasury functions. Provides subject matter expertise, analyzes financial and operational data, improves data quality and controls, supports audits and regulatory examinations, and guides automation and process redesign. Partners with Accounting, Investments, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to resolve complex issues, strengthen reporting integrity, and drive scalable business outcomes.

Ensures accurate financial data processing, reconciliation, reporting, controls, and accounting treatment across Controller and Treasury functions. Analyzes discrepancies and trends, supports audits and regulatory examinations, investigates root causes, maintains audit-ready documentation, and improves reporting and operational processes through standardization and automation. Partners with Accounting, Operations, Financial Controls, and Technology teams while managing risks, data quality, and shifting priorities.

Manage and lead cybersecurity engineering teams responsible for asset protection and threat detection. Set technical direction for firewalls, endpoint/server security, DLP, vulnerability scanning, SIEM/SOAR, and threat intelligence. Partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and risk teams to prioritize engineering work, drive automation and observability, ensure operational health, and deliver measurable risk-reduction outcomes while developing and coaching staff.

Lead an engineering product team building account management, portfolio tracking, and wealth management platforms. Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance, manage schedules and vendors, mentor engineers, drive DevOps and observability practices, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and own operational readiness and incident escalation. Hands-on data engineering experience with AWS, Python, Lambda, and Postgres is valued.

Lead enterprise strategy and engineering to defend against AI-powered threats. Design detection, prevention, and response architecture for adversarial AI, integrate controls into cyber tooling, build threat models, prototype defensive AI, and mentor teams while influencing leadership and vendor selection.

Lead development of an enterprise AI/ML platform (Databricks + AWS) enabling ML, LLM/RAG, and agentic systems. Drive platform product strategy, technical direction, observability, governance, cost management, and team development while partnering with product, security, and compliance to deliver adoptable, reliable AI capabilities.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable, resilient insurance application systems across Life, Health, and Annuity. Drive technical strategy, design integrations, mentor engineers, evaluate vendors, and ensure reliable CI/CD, DevOps, and platform standards while collaborating with product, underwriting, and cross-functional teams.

The Staff Engineer will lead architectural direction for cross-cutting initiatives, mentor teams, design systems, and drive software integration, focusing on API modernization and cloud transformation.

As a Principal Engineer, you will set the engineering vision, lead technical direction, and drive strategy across enterprise platforms, focusing on developer experience and scalability. Responsibilities include designing solutions, collaborating across teams, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring other engineers, all while ensuring alignment with broader business goals.

The Staff Engineer will design and implement scalable engineering solutions, mentor teams, develop software integration patterns, and lead technical strategy to meet customer needs.

Lead definition and delivery of an MVP for a new digital financial-planning offering. Translate vision into roadmap, work hands-on with engineering and design, run experiments and user research, define KPIs, use prototypes and data to validate assumptions, and align stakeholders through ambiguity. Identify opportunities to apply AI and balance customer, technical, and business tradeoffs.