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Data Engineer I (Hybrid - Des Moines)

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-06-21

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.

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

Skills

  • 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
  • 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 Overview

  • 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. It was founded in 1879, and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.principalam.com/.
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