Director - Enterprise Architecture

What You'll Do

We're seeking a Director of Enterprise Architecture: Data and Analytics to drive our organization's data vision and technical strategy. This role will be instrumental in leading and establishing a consistent, efficient, and comprehensive foundation for data and analytics capabilities within our Retirement and Income Solutions division.

Here are some examples of the kinds of things you’ll do:

• Work with business and IT leaders: help formulate enterprise data architecture strategies to align with company’s business strategies and priorities.
• Lead Strategy to Execution: of enterprise-wide data architecture strategies aligned with business objectives
• Engage in Enterprise Architecture Practice: partner with enterprise architect peers to build and lead the execution of enterprise architecture strategy with focus on the Data Domain.
• Deliver Enterprise Data Architecture: create strategic architecture data standards, guidelines, principles, and frameworks that inform and enable execution on strategic outcomes.
• Lead Architecture Data Governance: ensure business capabilities and related data and technology platforms are positioned to support today’s business demands and the strategic objectives of tomorrow.
• Modernize with Engineering Teams: enable/facilitate migration of existing portfolio of applications to AWS public cloud or SaaS based solutions.
• Identify, Research, and Recommend: stay abreast of emerging and innovative technologies, techniques and tools that enable IT and the business to achieve strategic goals.
• Assess Architectural Risk: effectively communicate implications and mitigation strategies to IT staff and management

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

• You have a Bachelor's degree and 12 years of experience in a multi-business unit global organization or equivalent work experience
• You have proven experience as a Data Architect, for both operational and data analytics capabilities and platforms
• You are passionate about tracking and strategically applying emerging technologies to business solutions in alignment with strategic data needs
• You understand working with/across all enterprise architecture domains (Business, Data, Application, Infrastructure, and Security)
• You have exposure to different data repositories architectures and strategies such as Operational Data Stores, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Mesh

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• AWS Solution Architect Associate certification
• TOGAF or similar Enterprise Architecture certification
• Experience with Snowflake and AWS services (S3, RDS, Lambda, Redshift, etc.)
• Prior financial services industry experience

Principal’s long-term outcomes for Data & Analytics includes:

• Democratization – data and insights are readily and seamlessly available to people, processes, and products
• Efficiency – the community is collaborating efficiently on the cloud and applying consistent tools and methodologies
• Impact – the data and analytics community has significant and measurable impact on company strategies and objectives
• Governance – mature governance enables us to make quick and confident decisions balancing data utilization with laws and customer commitments

Our vision is to provide services and solutions that enable a cohesive experience for data producers to contribute easily and data consumers to find, request, and access consistent, governed, high quality, and secured data to meet analytical, business intelligence, and aligned operational needs.

We strive for a technology culture that identifies the newest, most effective solutions through discovery, open discussion, and collaboration. We have fun together, care about each other, and we believe in continuously optimizing our processes, refining our solutions, and improving ourselves to the benefit of our business!

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)

$153000 - $207000 / 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 in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, or Charlotte, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants 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

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

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

3/25/2025
Most Recently Posted Date

3/25/2025

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Salary : $153,000 - $207,000