Data Engineer – Workforce Data Engineering (Hybrid in Des Moines, IA)
Principal Global Services is part of Principal Financial Group, focusing on transforming fragmented workforce data into trusted, enterprise-ready data products. The Data Engineer will work with data representing over 20,000 employees, connecting systems and enabling smarter hiring and productivity decisions through hands-on experience with cutting-edge data platforms and AI-enabled technologies.
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.
- Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
- 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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