Staff Integration Engineer

The Staff Integration Engineer supports and may lead the architecture design, direct the conceptual and technical designing, developing, implementing and governance of API’s, APIM strategies, & Integration security functions that delivers business value across the organization while continuously looking at new innovated solutions and improving time to market.

The Staff Integration Engineer is responsible for leading architecture, analysis, design, building, testing, debugging, documenting, implementing, and maintaining new and existing APIs and integrations. They review and analyze user needs and design proposed system solutions based on requirements. They are experts with Mini/Micro service Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Integration design, testing, security, and API Management. They are experts in designing and developing Integrations leveraging REST, SOAP, JMS, AMQP, and Kafka protocols, and be able to provide architectural, engineering, and best practice guidance and mentoring to more junior team members and engineers across the organization. They evaluate and configure systems and peripherals for performance and serviceability, reliability, and availability. They recommend enhancements, upgrades and/or changes to the system configuration to maintain optimum system performance and utility. They will lead the technical architecture, design, development, and testing of these solutions and ensuring alignment to defined timelines. They are a key player to the development of the ongoing portfolio strategy and roadmap which includes recommendations of projects, enhancements, and upgrades. This role documents all aspects of an API, system, and/or data integrations to include architecture and design diagrams/flowcharts, layouts, code comments, and revision dates. Collaborates with various IT and business professionals to deliver high-quality results
Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Directs work on all phases of integration independently.
• Provides technical thought leadership on all sized integration efforts across multiple business units
• Serves as the technical expert on integration architecture, engineering, security, and management.
• Proactively finds and resolves risks within assets, technologies and platforms across business units
• Ensures quality is at the forefront during daily team efforts
• Ensures at an application level that multiple solutions fit together
• Leads vendor and internal technical staff during implementations
• Seeks out and drives improvements and innovation
• Leads entire solution process ensuring the current and future business needs are met
• Understands the business needs and translates into technical plans and processes across multiple business units
• Acts as the subject matter expert for technology solutions across multiple business units
• Oversees and directs other team members on the functionality used by software applications, including change management, security and authentication, disaster recovery planning, support for data access, system configurations and reports
• Sets and drives commitments to achieve desired priorities
• Drives architectural design and sets technical standards across the organization in alignment with architectural patterns
• Leverages experience and technical leadership to drive best practices in Thrivent’s environments
• Champions architecture direction and vision to leadership
• Accountable for the entire portfolio of solutions within a given business unit
• Accountable for input into the Integration Engineering & Security roadmap
• Accountable for input into the APIM and API testing strategies
• Required Experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, MIS, mathematics, or related field
• 8+ years of applicable experience including prior lead experience
• Advanced in-depth knowledge of systems design, architecting and demonstrated leadership on all sized efforts
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical thinking and leadership skills
• This role can sit 100% remote (must be able to work between 8am - 4 pm CST)