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Thrivent · 1 month ago

Mgr, Engineering - Salesforce Marketing Technology

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$139K/yr - $189K/yr

8+ years exp

Thrivent is a company committed to helping people thrive with purpose. The Engineering Manager for Marketing Technology provides strategic direction and technical leadership for multidisciplinary teams, overseeing the design, integration, and optimization of marketing technology platforms and campaigns.

FinanceFinancial ExchangesFinancial ServicesInsurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide strategic guidance on technical solution design and architecture

Participate in system design discussions to define delivery approaches

Review and support execution of technical solutions, including integration of Kafka topics, Informatica workflows, and Java-based applications

Demonstrates hands-on experience in software development and code review

Stays current with coding best practices and industry standards

Ensures thorough code reviews and applies strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Supports development and maintenance of Java applications and services

Encourages sharing of ideas and best practices across teams

Creates space for innovation and continuous learning

Anticipates technology trends and evaluates their impact on business outcomes

Supports agile practices, learning events, and team trainings

Removes barriers to team productivity and engagement

Actively participates in sprint demos and understands both desired and delivered outcomes

Partners with Product Managers to define initiatives, features, and epics, ensuring clarity of outcomes and technical feasibility

Co-develops strategies, operating plans, and performance measures for product groups

Fosters a psychologically safe and collaborative team environment that values diverse perspectives

Empowers teams to broker solutions across product boundaries

Ensures consistent integration approaches across products to achieve shared goals

Builds strong relationships with peers and proactively addresses cross-team challenges

Aligns team priorities with broader company and technology organization goals

Contributes to product and platform technology vision, strategy, and roadmaps

Advocates for the business value of technology upgrades and influences roadmap prioritization

Enables teams to select appropriate tools and platforms for their product areas

Leads engineering efforts to activate and optimize marketing channels including: Email, Text/SMS, Push Notifications, Paid Media, Direct Mail

Ensures seamless integration and orchestration across channels to support marketing campaigns and customer journeys

Oversees engineering support and integration of tools such as: Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce CRM, Distributed Marketing, Liveramp, Sprinklr, Hearsay Social

Guides teams in leveraging these platforms to deliver personalized, scalable, and compliant marketing experiences

Collaborates with engineers to uphold and evolve engineering practices

Promotes continuous improvement through development standards and observability

Contributes to enterprise-wide frameworks and reusable patterns

Defines and supports development lifecycle processes

Removes obstacles to resolving production incidents and problems

Promotes observability, monitoring, and alerting as part of DevOps maturity

Advocates for prioritizing work that maintains and improves product health

Serves as an escalation point for ongoing maintenance and production issues

Guides teams in defining criteria for platform and technology selection

Facilitates consensus on build vs. buy decisions and manages vendor selection processes

Oversees execution and management of technology platforms and vendor relationships

Conducts regular 1:1s and team meetings

Provides constructive feedback and coaching to support engineer growth

Offers career planning and development opportunities aligned with individual strengths and aspirations

Leads selection and engagement of consulting partners

Plans for future talent needs and collaborates on recruitment strategies

Builds and sustains high-performing teams with a culture of accountability, excellence, and partnership

Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies—courage, collaboration, and commitment

Supports a culture of continuous improvement, employee engagement, and client focus aligned with Thrivent’s purpose and values

Manages direct and indirect team members

Qualification

Salesforce Marketing CloudJava application developmentKafka integrationInformatica workflowsMarketing TechnologyProject managementLeadership experienceContinuous improvementEffective communicationProblem-solving skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience

8+ years of progressive experience in IT, including 5+ years in disciplines such as CRM, Marketing Technology, portfolio strategy, or roadmap development

3+ years of leadership experience in IT disciplines like customer relationship management or demand management

3+ years of management experience in application development or leading major technical projects

Proven leadership of high-performance, multidisciplinary teams

Strong project management skills with experience executing multiple or large-scale initiatives

Demonstrated ability to develop solutions to complex business problems

Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders

Ability to make sound decisions in dynamic environments with limited information

Experience in planning and evaluating customer relationship and demand management programs

Experience with Kafka, Informatica, and Java application development and integration

Preferred

MBA

Experience in the financial services industry

Background in IT planning and business relationship management

Experience in matrixed organizations

Familiarity with product development and management

Benefits

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

Other employee benefits

Company

Thrivent

Glassdoor3.7

Thrivent is a financial services organization that helps Christians be wise with money and live generously.

Founded in 1902

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.thrivent.com

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