Data Engineer – Workforce Data Engineering (Hybrid in Des Moines, IA)

Principal Financial Group is a trusted leader in financial services, and they are seeking a Data Engineer for their Workforce Data Engineering team. This role involves transforming fragmented workforce data into enterprise-ready data products that help improve hiring, productivity, and learning.

Responsibilities

• Work hands-on with cutting-edge data platforms and AI-enabled technologies
• Collaborate with teams across the company to solve real business problems
• Curate and connect data for a global workforce of 20,000+ employees
• Explore new and creative use cases for workforce and employee data
• Develop AI agents and tools that help leaders and employees get answers faster
• Creating a unified view of employees across systems
• Enabling insights into hiring, productivity, and learning
• Delivering datasets that power analytics, reporting, and AI

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or a Master's degree 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

• 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.
• 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
• This role offers in-office or hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangements out of our Des Moines, Iowa World Headquarters.

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