Data Engineer ; Hybrid - Des Moines

What You’ll Do

Kickstart Your Data Engineering Career–Where Every Interaction Tells a Story

Do you get excited about turning raw data into insights that actually matter? Want to work with cutting edge data platforms, modern engineering practices, and AI driven analytics all while collaborating with teams that power everything from mobile apps to contact centers?

If you’re passionate about learning fast, building at scale, and seeing the real-world impact of your work, Principal’s Omnichannel Interactions Data Engineering Team is the place for you.

We’re a highly engaged team of data engineers responsible for aggregating, curating, and elevating customer interaction data across the entire enterprise. From web and email to calls and emerging digital channels, we bring together data from diverse systems to create a single, cohesive, and trusted view of how Principal connects with its customers.

• 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

• Bachelor’s degree or a Master’s in a related field
• Proficiency in SQL, Python and version control tools like Git Hub
• 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

What Will Make You Stand Out?

• Experience with Snowflake and AWS services
• Ability to work directly with data and data stores 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

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. 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. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

$62000 - $105000 / year

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. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.

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We’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experience and skills.

This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

At this time, we’re not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

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