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Company

Principal Financial Group · 1 day ago

Data Engineer III

Des Moines, IA

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$82K/yr - $182K/yr

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Provide data engineering and analysis expertise to maximize effectiveness.

Oversee 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 sources into large-scale processing systems and databases to use in providing insights that solve business needs.

Responsible for creating data management process designs, models, and architectures by understanding architectural patterns and principles, researching new technologies and approaches, understanding requirements, testing, debugging, documentation, quality assurance review, implementation, securing and maintenance.

Be persistent in the face of roadblocks, dispatch them efficiently, pulling in others as necessary.

Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends, creates optimized data components and systems that utilize appropriate development environment.

Employ a variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages, data movement tools) to marry systems together.

Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.

Assist in developing strategies for data acquisition and influence others within the business area through explanation of policies, patterns and practices.

Provide technical guidance to team members on integration and functionality of infrastructure components.

Demonstrate influence at the department level.

Provide mentoring to team.

Communicate effectively across business unit and IT as necessary.

Perform other job-related duties or special projects as required.

Independently conducts analysis and development, requirements, coding, automated testing, debugging, designing, documentation, quality assurance review, implementation and maintenance.

Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends.

Influence direction of team.

Qualification

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Required

Bachelor's degree plus 4 - 6 years related work experience or a Master's in related field

Proven experience as an IT professional

Basic leadership and presentation skills required

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

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

Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required

Ability to collaborate with others 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 and processes preferred

Excellent time management skills preferred

Principal Asset Management experience 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

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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.

Founded in 1879

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

10001+ employees