Staff Engineer - Minneapolis - Thrivent Financial

Description

As Staff Engineer – Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) you will work independently and with your peers to translate customer and compliance needs into technical solutions. You will leverage internal resources, prior industry experience, and deep IGA tool mastery to ensure solutions are resilient, scalable, and aligned with enterprise platform requirements. You will partner with IT leadership peers and enterprise-wide stakeholders to define the IGA roadmap, drive automation at scale, and establish cross-system architecture standards. Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance across IT methodologies including Agile, DevOps, and Reliability practices, while ensuring governance and controls remain central to solution design.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Designing Solutions

• Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive secure and compliant outcomes for customers.
• Design integrations across HRIS and directory systems (Workday, AD, AAD, etc.) and define software integration patterns that align to high-level engineering goals and governance requirements.
• Architect automation workflows and visibility mechanisms to ensure compliance with audit frameworks and key controls.

Implementing Solutions

• Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex IGA problems significant to the enterprise.
• Develop architecturally impactful components of integrations, entitlements, and automation scripts (PowerShell, Bash, SQL).
• Lead efforts to identify, incorporate, and define development frameworks and libraries useful to IGA solutions.

Learning and Applying New Techniques

• Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices in identity governance, automation, and compliance.
• Reverse-engineer undocumented vendor configurations and share insights with the team.

Collaborating within the Team

• Coordinate design and integration of subsystems across the IGA ecosystem.
• Participate in collaboration sessions to remove technical roadblocks and mentor junior engineers.
• Contribute to technical user stories, specifications, and coding standards that emphasize governance outcomes.

Collaborating Across Teams

• Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve secure and compliant outcomes.
• Lead analytics initiatives such as role mining and optimization of rule structures.

Collaborating Across the Organization

• Act as a subject matter expert in IGA operations and support processes to build resilient enterprise systems.
• Ensure visibility and alerting mechanisms are in place for violations and key controls.

Setting product/platform technology strategy

• Help define the IGA roadmap and cross-system architecture.
• Contribute to innovative automation solutions that align to strategic objectives and compliance frameworks.
• Provide platform technology expertise to teams within the product group and across the organization.

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

• Partner with the engineering community to establish best practices in IGA configuration, automation, and governance.
• Share engineering standards across teams and mentor engineers to apply these patterns effectively.

DevOps

• Lead resolution of critical IGA incidents and proactively address product issues.
• Continuously assess technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient identity systems.
• Promote and expand CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment and configuration processes.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

• Lead evaluation of IGA software solutions, advising on strengths and weaknesses of external platforms.
• Provide summaries of how tools impact governance, compliance, and business processes.
• Contribute to criteria for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.

Coaching Engineers

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers of varying levels, with emphasis on governance-aware practices.
• Deliver trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps in IGA tools and automation.

Recruiting and Building Talent

• Engage in the tech community to build Thrivent's technology brand and position as an employer of choice.
• Participate in interviews and talent development, modeling Thrivent's leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment.
• Support a culture of continuous improvement, employee engagement, and unwavering commitment to clients, ensuring Thrivent's trust and reputation remain strong.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in engineering environments, with emphasis on identity governance and administration.
• Experience architecting IGA solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, and compliance.
• Expertise in API integration, scripting (PowerShell, Bash, etc.), and query languages (SQL).
• Understanding of HRIS and directory integration patterns (Workday, AD, AAD).
• 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.

Preferred:

• Master's degree in a related field
• Financial Services industry experience
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

Pay Transparency

Thrivent's long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $146, $198,108.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, 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; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent's plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent's discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex , gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state , or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation , please let us know by sending an email to or call and request Human Resources.

At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they've been given. At our heart, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our customers. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow.

For over 100 years, Thrivent has been helping people build their financial futures and live more generous lives. Today, it's a Fortune 500 company that offers a full range of expert financial solutions, serving more than 2 million customers, as well as the communities in which they live and work.

Thrivent fosters a diverse workforce to serve our diverse clientele, reflecting a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're intrigued about our work and the possibility of becoming part of it, we invite you to visit to learn more. You won't just build a career; you'll be part of an organization focused on growing, innovating, and serving.