MGR, Engineering – Workforce Identity & Access Management

      

Accomplishes results primarily through management of experienced specialists who exercise significant latitude and independence. Provides strategic direction to the Identity Engineering Integrations (IEI) team within the IAM organization. Deeply understands and empathizes with the Engineering Community and can build solutions which empower them to seamlessly integrate authentication and secrets management industry-leading best practices. This includes driving technical capabilities such as privilege management, certificate lifecycle management, secrets management, and enforcing conditional access policies to ensure secure and scalable identity solutions. Develops budgets, schedules, and team objectives and metrics derived from organizational goals. Collaborates and interacts frequently with internal and external key stakeholders and senior-level business partners concerning projects, operational decisions, scheduling requirements, and contractual clarifications. Leads briefings and technical meetings to support IAM objectives.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Manager, Engineering to lead our IEI team within the Information Security department. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in identity engineering and integrations, an empathetic understanding of how frontend and backend engineers interact with those principles, a passion for cybersecurity, and the ability to drive engineering principles for IAM products and services.

         

          

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead and manage the Identity Engineering Integrations (IEI) team, providing direction, mentorship, and support to ensure successful delivery of integration projects and automation initiatives.

• Drive the development and implementation of IAM integration solutions, including automation for certificate lifecycle management, secrets health monitoring, and onboarding workflows for privileged access management tools.

• Champion the engineering community by empathizing with their needs and reducing friction in adopting IAM capabilities. Design and deliver integration patterns, tools, and guidance that make it simple for developers to embed authorization, secrets management, and privileged access controls into their applications and processes without compromising agility or security.

• Oversee the design and optimization of integration frameworks that connect IAM services with enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and security monitoring tools such as DataDog.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders, to align IEI initiatives with organizational objectives and improve identity security posture.

• Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable integration processes that adhere to compliance and audit requirements while reducing operational overhead.

• Manage project budgets, resource allocation, and deliverables to ensure integrations and automation projects are completed on time and within financial constraints.

• Foster strong, trust-based relationships with internal stakeholders and partners, enabling collaboration and shared understanding of IAM integration priorities.

• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in IAM engineering, automation, and integration technologies to continuously enhance the organization’s identity and access management capabilities.

Designing Solutions

• Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.

• Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution

Developing Software

• Has Developed software.   Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.

• Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills

Learning and applying new techniques

• Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.

• Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business

Collaborating within team

• Engages in sprint demos; Understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team

• Collaborates with Product manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups 

• Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas

Collaborating across teams

• Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products

• Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal / outcome.

• Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams

• Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solve collaboratively

Setting product/platform technology strategy

• Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments

• Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap

• Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.

Defining Engineering standards/patterns

• Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.

• Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability

• Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

• Be an advocate to the team to define criteria’s for selecting the right platform/technology

• Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection.

• Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.

Coaching Engineers

• Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meeting,

• Provides constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.

• Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities.

Recruiting/building talent

• Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process

• Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.

• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.  ​

• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.  Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.  

• Manage a team of direct and indirect staff 

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QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:  

 Required:

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

• 8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development. 

• 3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management. 

• 3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards. 

• Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams. 

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

• Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems. 

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives. 

• Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment and intelligent decision making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions. 

• Ability to formulate, implement and evaluate plans, programs and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management. 

 Preferred: 

• MBA 

• Financial Services industry experience 

• Experience in IT planning and business relationship management 

• Experience working in a matrix management organization 

• Experience with product development and management 

              

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 $139,455.00 - $188,676.00 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.

 

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