Remote Staff Engineer / Architect (Java)

Job Description

Our client is looking for a Staff Engineer / Architect with experience in DevOps, Custom Application Development and Source Control & Delivery. This person needs to be a player / coach to help drive engineering maturity within the team, collaborate with POs to help refine broad tech initiatives, etc.

The Finance & Actuarial tech stack is a hybrid ecosystem of legacy platforms and modern cloud-based capabilities that together support financial reporting, actuarial modeling, regulatory compliance, and analytics.

• Mainframe & Legacy Processing (COBOL, CICS, JCL, etc.)
• Large Enterrpise Grade Systems (PeopleSoft, Concur, TAI, etc.)
• Custom Application Development (Java, OpenShift, Python,)
• Source Control & Delivery (Git / GitHub, CICD, Cloudsmith, etc.)
• Some data engineering tools (SQL, Databricks, etc.)

As Staff Engineer you will be a player coach. You will provide deep technical leadership, drive architectural direction, and deliver high impact engineering solutions across teams. As a senior individual contributor, you will translate customer and business needs into scalable systems and platform aligned technical designs, while elevating engineering practices through mentorship, thought leadership, and cross team influence. Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to various IT methodologies including Agile, DevOps, and Reliability practices.

Designing Solutions

Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers

Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy

Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem. These patterns should align to high level engineering goals and business initiatives

Implementing Solutions

Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer. Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making.

Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions

Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product

Learning and Applying New Techniques

Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.

Collaborating Across Teams

Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly

Collaborating Across The Organization

Act as an SME to provide over all operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise?

Setting product / platform technology strategy

Lead the design of critical path / technology for the product group. Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer

Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization

Help to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices

Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes

DevOps

Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues

Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software

Promote and expand on the use of the CI / CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software.

Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.

Contribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.

Coaching Engineers

Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the product group

Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team

Recruiting and Building Talent

Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market

Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team

Take part in the Talent Captain role for the product group. This person also leads in how we interview.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to To learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy :

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy :

Required Skills & Experience

Education

Required :

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

Required Work Experience / Skills

10+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver

Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.

Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies

Proficiency in managing large scale projects.

Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.

Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.

Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and / or deliver technical documentation.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and / or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.