Principal Financial Group · 5 hours ago
Sr Data Engineer I
Des Moines, IA
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$95K/yr - $182K/yr
6+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality. Understand the trade offs between technical, analytical and product needs and lead to solutions that take all the needs into account. Develop strategies for data acquisition and influence others within the business area through explanation of policies, patterns and practices.
Provide data engineering and analysis expertise to improve efficiency across multiple technologies. Set standards and be responsible for technical aspects of data management functions including creating, collecting, loading, transforming, cleansing, processing, storing, analyzing, and visualizing data.
Work directly or in support of data science/analytics to design, develop, test and integrate data from various sources into large-scale processing systems and databases to use in providing insights that solve business needs.
Responsible for creating, vetting, and documenting complex data management process designs, models, and architectures by setting and understanding architectural patterns and principles, researching new technologies and approaches, driving requirements, testing, debugging, documentation, quality assurance review, implementation, securing and maintenance. Regularly deliver solutions on-time and constantly work to make accurate delivery on estimates.
Provide technical advice and weigh in on technical decisions that impact other teams or the company at large. Research, influence and propose new technologies. Own technical testing and performance plan for work efforts.
Provide technical guidance to team members on integration and functionality of infrastructure components. Make others better through code review, thorough documentation, technical guidance, mentoring or servicing as lead on a project.
Demonstrate influence at the BU level. May be responsible for staff recruitment, performance evaluations, training and career development. Set clear goal expectations for members of a team.
Set direction at the project/service level and consistently influence decision-making at the Pillar/Product level. Own and design all data development layers of a solution. Set direction for team in proactively following established controls, policies, regulations and recommend mitigation strategies during development. Coordinate with others to work through and create action plans as a result of risk assessments or detected vulnerabilities.
Perform other job-related duties or special projects as required.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's degree plus 6 - 10 years related work experience or a Master's in related field plus 2 - 8 years related work experience
Demonstrable experience as an IT professional
Proven leadership and presentation skills required
Ability to work directly with data and datastores through programming language such as Python, SQL, and Scala.
Experience with a variety of data modeling techniques and data structures
Ability to optimize data for analytics and data science
Experience building/operating systems for data extraction, ingestion and processing of large data sets
Knowledge and direct experience using business intelligence reporting tools
Experience building data products incrementally and integrating and managing datasets from multiple sources
Advanced planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required
Must be able to effectively communicate strategies and designs to all levels of the company
Must be able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and confidentiality
May be required to provide on-call support
Preferred
Knowledge of financial services products, processes and business unit applications preferred
Experience with developing and deploying AWS infrastructure via CDK and developing data pipelines using tool such as AWS Glue and Snowflake Snowpark
AWS Certifications, such as Data Engineering Associate, Machine Learning Associate, or Solutions Architect Associate preferred
Benefits
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.
Pension Eligible
Company
Principal Financial Group
Principal Financial Group® is dedicated to improving the wealth and well-being of people and businesses around the world—helping more than 62M customers plan, protect, invest, and retire as of December 31, 2023.
10,001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Dan Houston
President and CEO
Liliana (Lil) Waters, CPA, FLMI
CFO – US Distribution
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