Sr Salesforce Engineer

As a Sr. Salesforce Engineer, this role serves as a hands‑on technical expert responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable, business‑critical Salesforce solutions in close partnership with the Advisor Central Product Team, specifically supporting the Product and Transactions experience for Financial Advisors. This engineer will play a key role in shaping front‑end–heavy Salesforce applications, leveraging Lightning Web Components to build intuitive dashboards and experiences that surface complex financial product data for end users.

The role is expected to lead solutioning efforts end‑to‑end by breaking down features into deliverable increments, recommending designs aligned with long‑term product and IT strategy, and integrating Salesforce with external services to enable seamless data flow. Success in this role requires strong engineering rigor, deep Salesforce expertise, and a product‑oriented mindset, with an emphasis on understanding business processes, anticipating advisor needs, and actively influencing how solutions are designed.

• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader engineering strategy

• Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core technology solutions for the products that delivers outcomes
• Consistent and dependable in delivering core technology solutions that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.

• Shares new ideas and techniques with team
• Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

• Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

• Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software
• Use data to measure progress
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
• Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

• Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
• Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor

• Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational engineering skills
• Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
• Provide trainings to the junior developers and groom them
• Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team

• Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
• Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
• Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliveralong with hands‑on Salesforce…