Thrivent · 1 day ago
Principal Enterprise Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$161K/yr - $218K/yr
15+ years expThrivent is committed to helping people thrive with purpose, and they are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead strategy and innovation in evaluating existing systems and developing strategic solutions. The role involves providing architectural leadership across the organization’s systems and collaborating with external partners to align technology decisions with the overall Enterprise Architecture Framework.
FinanceFinancial ExchangesFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
The ability to communicate verbally and in written form across all levels of the organization
The ability to present to leadership, engineering and large groups
The ability to facilitate a meeting across many different viewpoints coming to a resolution
Ability to ask the hard questions and drive to the outcome needed across the organization
The ability to review and provide feedback on architecture and implementation across the enterprise
The ability to determine an enterprise direction given a business outcome and enterprise architecture standards
The ability to solve complex, critical problems related to significant and unique issues affecting the enterprise
Ability to make sound judgements across portfolios while understanding the overall organization and enterprise fit and needs
Research and maintain knowledge in emerging technology strategies and the possible application to the business & technology processes
Research, evaluate and recommend technologies that support enterprise current or future company strategies
Analyze industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impacts on the enterprise
Lead the creation of governing principles to guide the enterprise IT Strategy and solution decisions for the enterprise
Drive cross-product, cross-functional architecture alignment to deliver technology initiatives that meet our enterprise architecture standards
Identify business needs that affect the enterprise architecture and provide solutions that integrate into the overall architectural vision and strategy
Work closely with subject matter experts and technology discipline leaders to continually enhance reference architecture, technology standards, policy and governance
Maintain an organization-wide view on current and future business and application architecture in support of goals and objectives
Promote cross team adherence to architecture standards and target architecture
Supports and provides broad expertise to other architects when collaborating across teams to create solutions that lead to outcomes
Broker architecture differences across portfolios to achieve outcomes for the most critical technology and/or strategic priorities for the organization
Able to provide architecture leadership to large scale business and technology initiatives across the enterprise/company
Drive solutions that fully meet our enterprise architecture standards
Lead the definition of new standards and principals when we encounter gaps with current standards
Support, communicate and gain alignment for the Thrivent Strategies across the organization. Help identify the impact of Thrivent Strategies on the architecture and systems
Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, technology and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise Architecture
Define and execute the company’s enterprise architecture values and standards for acquiring or developing systems, equipment, or software within the company
Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate
Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization
Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
Contributes / helps in the recruitment process to hire the right engineering talent for the organization
Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies - Model the Way, Rally the Team and Deliver Outcomes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
15+ years progressively responsible positions in Information Technology or related fields
10+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, application architecture and/or software development
Preferred
Master's Degree
Financial Services industry experience
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
Thrivent is a financial services organization that helps Christians be wise with money and live generously.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Teresa J. Rasmussen
President & CEO
Kelly Baker
Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
2025-11-28
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