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

Principal Financial Group is a leading firm in financial services and technology, dedicated to making financial security accessible to all. The Data Engineer will work with the Workforce Data Engineering team to transform fragmented workforce data into trusted data products, enabling smarter decisions about hiring, development, and productivity.

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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