Principal Financial Group · 6 hours ago
Data Engineer I (Hybrid - Des Moines)
Principal Financial Group is seeking a Data Engineer I to join their Omnichannel Interactions Data Engineering Team. This role involves building modern data pipelines and collaborating with various teams to enhance customer interaction data across the enterprise.
Financial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
Building and evolving modern data pipelines using cloud native and AI enabled technologies
Working hands on with enterprise scale data, learning best in class engineering, governance, and security practices
Collaborating across product, analytics, and AI teams to fuel Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, and operational use cases
Helping shape the future of customer interactions by improving data quality, completeness, and usability enterprise wide
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or a Master's in a related field
Proficiency in SQL, Python and version control tools like GitHub
Basic planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills
Highly self-motivated with excellent time management skills
Ability to provide on-call support
Preferred
Experience with Snowflake and AWS services
Ability to work directly with data and datastores through programming languages such as SQL, Python, etc
Experience working in an Agile environment, including familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence
Experience integrating and managing datasets from multiple sources
Experience with a variety of data modeling techniques and data structures
Ability to optimize data for analytics and data science
Ability to effectively communicate strategies and designs to all levels of the company
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.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageRecent News
Apollo Global Management, Inc.
2025-11-03
Alternative Credit Investor
2025-10-10
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