What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Data & Analytics department. In this role, you’ll be a part of the Workforce Data Team and help bring modern engineering capabilities to drive enterprise strategy across the business!

• Own technical aspects of data management functions including creating, loading, transforming, cleansing, processing, analyzing, and visualizing data.
• Work directly or in support of data science/analytics to design, develop, test and integrate data from various source systems into large-scale, easily consumable data platforms used for providing insights that promotes business growth and efficiency.
• Build data solution designs, models and infrastructure by applying architectural patterns and principles, data governance and security, researching new technologies and approaches, understanding requirements, all phases of testing, debugging, documenting, quality assurance practices, implementation and maintenance.
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends, create optimized data components and systems that use appropriate development environment. Employ technology (i.e., scripting languages, data movement tools) for efficient system integration.
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree or a Master's in a related field.
• Ability to work directly with data and datastores through programming language such as SQL, Python, Java, etc.
• Experience with a variety of data modeling techniques and data structures.
• Experience in development of systems for data extraction, ingestion and processing of large volumes of data.
• Experience working with relational database concepts and table structures and are proficient in writing queries using SQL preferred.
• Passion for continuous learning and skills growth.
• Planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Good communication skills and staying engaged with work, teammates, and business partners in a highly collaborative environment to solve problems and deliver customer value.

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Cloud technologies (i.e, AWS, CD/CI pipelines)
• Snowflake
• Python scripting
• Data warehouse experience
• Data Security
• Test automation
• PowerBI, Tableau or other cloud reporting tools

Salary Range Information
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)
$60000 - $82000 / year
Time Off Program
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Pension Eligible
Yes
Additional Information

Work Environments

This role offers an in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA.

Hours

This role will partner with our global teams and has an expectation for flexibility in your work schedule to have a frequent start time around 7am CST.

Our Engineering Culture

Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We’re driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States? This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

While our expertise spans the globe, we're bound by one common purpose: to foster a world where financial security is accessible to all. And our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees – individually and all of us together. Explore our core values, benefits and why we’re an exceptional place to grow your career.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window
We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.
Original Posting Date
8/16/2024
Most Recently Posted Date
8/16/2024

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