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Thrivent Financial Solutions Architect - Data Marketplace in United States
We are looking for Solutions Architect to build Data Marketplace product which is expected to be a combination of quicker value creation service and robust product build out for better scale, reusability, and ease of access. As a solution architect you are expected to:
Think long-term and strategically.
Delegate / Empower Tech Leads to low level design; collaborate with Tech
Leads on High level solution design.
Design/Solution for the use-cases in your domain.
Blueprinting your domain use cases
Participate in the discovery early on (It is not a hand-off process)
Reviewing and time-boxing the solutions ahead of time (2 sprints ahead)
Apply and refine integration patterns (approved)
Collaborate and influence other architects to align on data solution
architecture & DEME principles and patterns.
Influence to move towards the future state while being pragmatic - do not
take shortcuts.
Selling Data team strategy, principles, patterns, and adoptions.
Partner with PO and EM on EPIC/features or tech platform strategy
respectively
Co-Lead/Co-Chair any applicable CoP with Product Manager
The Senior Solutions Architect is a trusted advisor, influencer and thought leader whose IT expertise and business knowledge combines to translate business objectives into technology-enabled solutions that deliver the capabilities needed to achieve business results. Influences technology strategy and advises senior leaders based on knowledge and perspective. Applies business, industry and technical knowledge (across multiple assets, domains, platforms, technologies, vendors, etc.) to lead the delivery of innovative solutions. Provides leadership to appropriately support and maintain technology capabilities. Collaborates across domains to understand business, information and system implications. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity while solves complex problems, drives innovation and strives for continuous improvement. Focuses on the broader Thrivent Enterprise while collaborating with leaders, verbally and in writing, to align business and technical concepts in an understandable way. Mentors, trains and coaches staff.
The Solutions Architect is responsible for defining the architecture for large scale projects and programs. The Solutions Architect is also responsible for driving adoption and continuous improvement of architecture standards and best practices.
The Senior Solutions Architect is a trusted advisor, influencer and thought leader whose IT expertise and business knowledge combines to translate business objectives into technology-enabled solutions that deliver the capabilities needed to achieve business results. Influences technology strategy and advises senior leaders based on knowledge and perspective. Applies business, industry and technical knowledge (across multiple assets, domains, platforms, technologies, vendors, etc.) to lead the delivery of innovative solutions. Provides leadership to appropriately support and maintain technology capabilities. Collaborates across domains to understand business, information and system implications. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity while solves complex problems, drives innovation and strives for continuous improvement. Focuses on the broader Thrivent Enterprise while collaborating with leaders, verbally and in writing, to align business and technical concepts in an understandable way. Mentors, trains and coaches staff.The Solutions Architect is responsible for defining the architecture for large scale projects and programs. The Solutions Architect is also responsible for driving adoption and continuous improvement of architecture standards and best practices.
Job Description
Job Duties and Responsibilities General
Oversee and direct efforts to identify information and technology solutions that enable business needs and strategies.
Apply business knowledge and experience to effective advise others on technology as an enabler.
Lead efforts to analyze IT industry and market trends and determine potential impacts.
Develop concepts and constructs necessary to create technology-enabled business systems.
Influence technology direction.
Provides thought leadership and execution to large complex efforts.
Utilize breadth of technical understanding and dive deep when necessary.
Consult on and manage initiatives to ensure alignment across multiple business and IT areas.
Proactively mitigate risks across multiple assets, information domains, technologies and platforms.
Provide leadership, mentoring and technical guidance to others to drive initiatives.
Facilitate communications that involve obtaining cooperation and agreement on issues that may be complex or controversial.
Utilize negotiation and persuasion to come to agreement and to effectively form partnerships.
Act as a change agent to continuously improve and move the organization forward.
Accountable to provide leadership to successfully deliver the right results on initiatives in a timely and effective manner.
Direct the work of others to lead initiatives that cross multiple assets, technologies, platforms, departments and vendors.
Ability to work within a diverse team of skillsets and experience levels to deliver results.
Specific Strategy and Alignment
Lead the definition of conceptual and logical architecture specifications (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture) for the enterprise.
Lead, drive, and align the definition of architecture standards that are aligned with business goals, IT strategy and enterprise architecture visions.
Ensure that architecture decisions are consistent between departments and leverage opportunities for common approaches.
Communication / Collaboration
Serve as an architecture conduit for external requests, and provide education on enterprise architecture directions and goals.
Effectively manage organizational impacts of architecture.
Direct and lead enterprise architectural efforts, utilizing cross-functional knowledge (strategy, change management and business process management).
Provide architecture direction and guidance to other project architects and technical staff
Architecture Development
Lead effort to analyze IT industry and market trends and determine potential impact upon enterprise.
Lead effort to identify and analyze enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical, and solution architecture requirements.
Lead effort to work with the business users, enterprise architect and application engineers to develop the overall architecture approach and application for all levels of a solution.
Assist in the development of architectural best practices and standards.
Provide leadership and technical guidance to Architects.
Architecture Implementation
Lead effort to implement overall architecture approach for all layers of a solution.
Lead effort to ensure that enterprise architecture standards, policies, and procedures are enacted uniformly across application development projects and programs.
Review the deliverables throughout the development cycle to ensure quality and traceability to requirements and adherence to all quality management plans and standards.
Architecture Analysis and Consultation
Lead effort to review and provide input on proposals from an architectural perspective, including feasibility, practicality, technical viability, and consistency.
Assess and recommend infrastructure and application solutions for upgrades to meet business needs.
Architecture Support
Develop strong knowledge base in particular domain.
Lead effort to support lines of business, and support staff and technology areas who are implementing projects that impact the architecture.
Required Job Qualifications
Strong experience in Databricks, BI Technologies, Snowflake & Cloud technologies.
Experience with industry standard technologies, tools and methods including Service Oriented Architecture, EAI, and Application Servers, frameworks, mainframe and databases.
Demonstrated leadership on large scale projects impacting strategic priorities
Other Critical Factors
Thought Leadership: Understands the business, provides insights, and translates business objectives into technical plans and processes. Understands the end-to-end process. Anticipates situations and applies conceptual thinking to resolve complex problems using sound judgment and decisions making.
People Leadership: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate business need into technical requirements. Building strong relationships; collaborating and influencing others within IT and across the organization. Leads, mentors and coaches others.
Results Leadership: Applies industry, organizational and broad technical knowledge to drive future results. Prioritizes balancing long and short-term needs.
Personal Leadership: Demonstrates ability to work in ambiguity. Is passionate with a willingness to take a risk or stand and appropriately challenging others. Is a trusted business advisor.
We exist to help people achieve financial clarity. 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 clients. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow.
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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 Thrivent.com to learn more. You won’t just build a career; you’ll be part of an organization focused on growing, innovating, and serving.