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Thrivent Financial

Principal Salesforce Engineer, Marketing Cloud

Posted 4 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
158K-214K Annually
Expert/Leader
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
158K-214K Annually
Expert/Leader
Lead the design of the integrated marketing ecosystem, focusing on Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy. Collaborate with teams to deliver scalable solutions and mentor engineers.
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The Thrivent Financial Marketing Technology team is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our integrated marketing ecosystem, with a strong focus on Salesforce Marketing Cloud and its orchestration across platforms. Working within a Product Operating Model, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, cloud-based solutions that support personalized, data-driven marketing at scale. This role requires deep technical expertise in MarTech architecture, event-driven systems, and marketing automation, along with a strong understanding of how to integrate with modern platforms. You’ll influence architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy while enabling rapid delivery and continuous improvement.

         

          

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Designing Solutions

  • Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with deep technical expertise to drive outcomes for customers.
  • Create the overall design and architecture for the Marketing Technology team, articulating component interactions across systems and product groups.
  • Independently lead solution design initiatives aligned with Thrivent’s broader software engineering strategy.
  • Leverage platforms or technologies such as Salesforce Marketing CloudKafka, and Java-based applications to architect scalable, integrated marketing solutions.

Implementing Solutions

  • Use critical thinking and data-driven insights to solve complex, high-impact problems.
  • Lead the development of the most architecturally significant components within the marketing technology ecosystem.
  • Establish engineering structures and reusable patterns that enable teams to collaborate effectively.
  • Build and integrate solutions using tools such as enterprise APIs, Informatica, Kafka Topics, enterprise data warehouse  

Learning and Applying New Techniques

  • Lead research and experimentation with emerging technologies and best practices.
  • Share findings across the organization to elevate engineering capabilities and innovation.

Collaborating Within the Team

  • Participate in team collaboration sessions to remove technical roadblocks and provide architectural guidance.
  • Support product planning by helping translate business needs into technical user stories.
  • Act as a technical leader in system design across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
  • Facilitate solution design and implementation across product teams to support critical marketing initiatives.

Collaborating Across Teams

  • Promote adherence to enterprise technology standards and target architecture across teams.
  • Provide deep technical expertise to ensure cohesive system design and integration across marketing and adjacent platforms.

Collaborating Across the Organization

  • Serve as an expert in designing, developing, and analyzing system architecture across hardware and software layers.
  • Collaborate with other product teams to provide technical leadership and mentorship.
  • Create and maintain enterprise design patterns that guide Thrivent’s strategic technology vision.
  • Provide feedback loops from engineering teams to operations to support product operationalization.

Setting Product/Platform Technology Strategy

  • Define high-level capability requirements for marketing platforms and collaborate across the organization to deliver on them.
  • Provide platform-specific expertise to internal and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with business and technical goals.

Defining Engineering Standards/Patterns

  • Partner with internal and external engineering communities to establish and evolve best practices.
  • Define and disseminate engineering standards across teams, helping engineers apply them to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions.
  • Represent Thrivent in external forums, including open-source contributions and industry meetups.

DevOps

  • Lead the resolution of critical incidents and proactively address production issues.
  • Introduce technologies and practices that improve system stability, scalability, and resilience.
  • Evaluate and implement CI/CD improvements to enhance product reliability and delivery speed.
  • Build partnerships across technical domains to influence DevOps strategy and execution.

Selecting and Managing Technology Vendors

  • Provide technical consultation during the evaluation of third-party software and platforms.
  • Contribute to the selection criteria and strategic fit of vendor solutions within the marketing technology landscape.

Coaching Engineers

  • Mentor engineers across product groups, reinforcing best practices and architectural principles.
  • Provide technical leadership and facilitate knowledge-sharing through training sessions and demos.

Recruiting and Building Talent

  • Engage with the tech community to promote Thrivent’s technology brand and attract top talent.
  • Support recruitment efforts by participating in interviews and talent evaluation.
  • Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the WayRally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, employee engagement, and client-centric innovation.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience leading high-performing technology teams.
  • Proven ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated leadership and participation in the broader technology community.
  • Meets or exceeds all expectations of a Lead Engineer role
  • Hands one experience with marketing technologies such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud), and Java based applications 

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in a related field.
  • Experience in the financial services industry.
  • Experience coaching and mentoring engineering talent.
  • Experience with marketing applications such Social Platforms (Sprinklr, Hearsay Social), Paid Media (LiveRamp), Tag Management Tools (e,g, Google Tag Manager, Adobe Tag Manager). 

              

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 $158,271.00 - $214,132.00 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.


 

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.

Top Skills

Enterprise Apis
Enterprise Data Warehouse
Informatica
Java
Kafka
Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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