Mgr, Cyber Defense Engineering

Build strong working relationships with cybersecurity, technology, product, infrastructure, architecture, risk, and business stakeholders.

Represent cybersecurity engineering priorities, accomplishments, risks, and dependencies in product planning, operational reviews, and cross-team forums.

Help teams broker solutions across products and identify cross-team challenges that impact delivery, operations, or risk reduction.

Serve as an escalation point for product-level support, production issues, platform health, and ongoing maintenance of assigned cybersecurity capabilities.

Support vendor evaluation, platform selection, build-versus-buy decisions, and vendor relationship management for assigned technology capabilities.

Use metrics, monitoring, alerting, and operational insights to prioritize reliability, resiliency, vulnerability remediation, and continuous improvement work.

Hold regular one-on-ones and team meetings, provide constructive feedback, and create development plans that help engineers grow their skills and experience.

Plan for future people needs, support recruiting, and sustain a high-performing team focused on shared accountability and partnership.

Model Thrivent leadership competencies through courage, collaboration, and commitment while supporting a positive team environment.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development.

3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management.

3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance standards.

Demonstrated leadership and experience managing multidiscipline, high-performance work teams.

Strong competency in project management and execution of multiple or large projects.

Experience working with customers to develop solutions to complex business problems.

Proven ability to communicate effectively with internal/external stakeholders to support business initiatives.

Proven ability to function in an environment which requires flexibility, good judgment and intelligent decision making, often based on limited information and/or extreme conditions.

Ability to formulate, implement and evaluate plans, programs and procedures applicable to customer relationship and demand management.

Financial Services industry experience

Experience in IT planning and business relationship management

Experience working in a matrix management organization

Experience with product development and management

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