The Advisor Information Security Engineer is a trusted expert, 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 solving 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 Advisor Information Security Engineer supports the Information Security needs of Thrivent Financial through continuous support and improvement of the technologies, procedures and controls within our Information Technology environment and with the business.

The Advisor Information Security Engineer is viewed as an expert across multiple areas of Information Security, has deep understanding of other technologies and their relationship to the protection of Thrivent Information assets and delivers strong results through strong technical know-how and focused leadership.
The Information Security Engineer is responsible for the engineering and development function supporting the creation and maintenance of one or more services within Thrivent’s Information Security Program along with the associated architecture and standards that deliver enterprise-wide Information Security services for internal and external customers. The Information Security Engineer provides subject matter expertise on one or more services within assigned Information Security Program architecture, protocols, processes, and governance and is responsible for the technical implementation and support of all aspects within assigned Information Security Program functions.

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 effectively 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 & 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.
• Understand and apply Thrivent Information Security Policies, standards, and processes to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability to Thrivent information and information systems.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for security technologies in accordance with Thrivent security policies, standards, and SOP’s
• Support administration of Information Security policies, standards, and SOP’s
• Provide assistance with other deployed security technologies and support team members
• Support regulatory examinations and internal audits as needed
• Provide on-call support of Information Security deployed technologies and cyber incident response
• Lead other IT members in a technical understanding of Information Security practices
• Ability to understand potential cyber threats and respond appropriately across all IT services, technologies and processes

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.

Related Roles (may play these roles): Solution Architect, Domain Architect, Enterprise Architect, Business Architect

Required Job Qualifications

Required e xperience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, information security, business, mathematics or related field
• MBA, Advanced degree or equivalent preferred
• Information Security Certification required and in good standing, preferably CISSP
• 8+ years of applicable experience
• Demonstrated leadership on large scale projects impacting strategic priorities

Other Critical Factors

Skills/Knowledge:

• Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles
• Learning Agility
• Collaboration
• Analytical Thinking
• Critical Thinking
• Strong Organizational Skills
• Diagnose, troubleshoot & perform repairs on responsible technologies
• Technology Standards, Procedures, Policies
• Information Security Solutions Technical Expertise with focus on Information Security technologies
• Conceptual Thinking
• Presentation Skills
• Strategic Thinking

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 human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.