16 jobs found in Des Moines

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Assistant Director of Engineering to join our Enterprise Data & Analytics team! In this role, you'll lead a multidisciplinary team of data engineers, data governance analysts, and data quality professionals driving one of Principal’s strategic initiatives to advance the use of data and AI across our global enterprise.   You’ll have a part in maturing our AI and data foundations, strengthening our governance frameworks, and elevating the visibility, accessibility, and quality of the data that powers decision‑making across the organization. Your team will lead essential capabilities such as metadata management, data cataloging, data lineage, and data quality monitoring to ensure trusted, well-governed data is available at scale.   This role is ideal for a leader with a strong data engineering background, exceptional soft skills, and the ability to influence teams. You’ll have the opportunity to: Lead and mentor high-performing...

What You'll Do: We're looking for a Strategic Portfolio Manager to join our enterprise IT management area leading the enterprise data & analytics (EDA) portfolio. In this role, you'll partner with portfolio leaders, IT teams, and enterprise stakeholders to influence and ensure the EDA portfolio is in alignment with enterprise strategy. This includes setting clear priorities, manage dependencies, and lead effective trade-off decisions to optimize business outcomes within resource constraints. You'll serve as a trusted collaborator and advisor to the portfolio leadership team, share, communicate and promote the portfolio vision to ensure visibility of products/services across the enterprise, foster change leadership consensus to continuously improve portfolio management outcomes, and leverage effective portfolio management tools and techniques which complement the operating model. You’ll have a focus on: Execution of Strategy - Ensure alignment of the EDA portfolio to...

What You'll Do: We're seeking an experienced Audit Manager  to join our  Professional Practices team within Internal Audit. This role is critical to driving audit process improvement ,  technology enablement , and  audit quality  across the department. The ideal candidate combines  deep internal audit expertise  with a  process engineering mindset , enabling them to execute immediately and lead initiatives that enhance efficiency, consistency, and innovation in audit delivery.   You’ll Also Have the Opportunity To: Lead technology enablement  by administering AuditBoard and optimizing audit tools to enhance functionality and integration. Design and implement data-driven reporting solutions  using dashboards and analytics to provide meaningful audit performance insights. Partner on data governance initiatives  to ensure secure handling of audit data and compliance with regulatory requirements. Perform quality checks on audit work and support the...

What You'll Do: We have an exciting opportunity within the Benefits & Protection Portfolio Office for a Portfolio Manager who can contribute in an outcome focused agile organization. This is a chance to engage with multiple roles and stakeholders across businesses, functions, technology product families, providing portfolio management and enabling support that helps us accomplish business objectives together. You’ll have the opportunity to: Lead critical initiatives across businesses, functions, and technology product families Engage where there is a business need and effectively providing planning, organization, communication, transparency, collaboration, prioritization, investment, dependency, and risk management to achieve outcomes Partner within a technology product leadership team, providing portfolio management, and supporting leaders, product managers, and stakeholders Leverage an agile approach that focuses on strategic and financial outcomes...

What You'll Do: Distribution Technology is seeking a motivated, collaborative, and experienced technology leader who values servant leadership and is passionate about developing people and maturing modern software engineering practices. As a Software Engineering Leader , you will guide teams in delivering high-quality, innovative technology solutions that advance our business goals. You’ll play an essential role in shaping our technology direction, fostering an inclusive and growth-oriented culture, and building strong partnerships across Principal. Lead and empower high-performing teams through coaching, clear communication, and accountability, while managing formal HR responsibilities such as hiring, performance reviews, and development. Cultivate a culture of continuous learning by encouraging curiosity, professional development, and knowledge sharing. Promote collaboration —build effective relationships with peers, business partners, and leaders to...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Technical Communications Developer to join our Document Services team. In this role, you’ll serve as a team member on the Compensation as a Service team (CaaS), partnering with team members as a liaison between Business Units and the vendor service platform that will be completing projects.  You will help define improvements and implement the updates to the operational service model, collaborate with the business requestors and vendor to help ensure work is prioritized appropriately, ensure completeness of requirements through the request process, and partner with the vendor and team members to ensure work is getting completed timely and accurately.  You will also use the vendor platform to create and change digital communications requested by the business.   Additional accountabilities: Ability to identify and pursue opportunities to improve systems, processes, and services. Assist in developing processes, procedures, workflows, and...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) business. In this role, you’ll be an engineering lead providing architectural oversight for the modernization of our retirement recordkeeping platform by designing scalable solutions, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring the successful delivery of mission-critical initiatives that shape the future of our retirement solutions. You'll have the opportunity to: Drive technological innovation by identifying strategic opportunities that deliver maximum business impact in our fast-paced environment Assess emerging technologies and provide guidance on technical direction, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide strategic initiatives Create and maintain solution architecture artifacts, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps that guide implementation teams Partner with key stakeholders to transform business objectives into robust technical...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Assistant Director of Engineering to join our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) business. In this critical role, you’ll drive the evolution of data enablement capabilities for our next-generation retirement recordkeeping platform, while building and leading a high performing engineering team. As a key technical leader, you’ll coach and develop data engineers, guide technical decisions, and ensure the successful delivery of transformative initiatives that shape our future retirement solutions. You'll have the opportunity to: Lead the transformation of operational data into curated, consumable data products using cloud-native technologies Drive the integration and migration of data within the recordkeeping ecosystem, establishing quality standards and ensuring data consistency across systems Evaluate emerging technologies and guide technical direction, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and industry best...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our WSRS technology team. In this role, you’ll be a key player and leader in strategically shaping our technological future from innovative customer experiences to robust core systems. We want your leadership skills and expertise in utilizing technology to drive operational efficiency and business growth. You will have the opportunity to:   Lead and mentor high-performing software engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. Shape our technology strategy by collaborating across scrum teams to champion a unified and consistent approach to software engineering, ensuring efficiency and quality while pioneering the latest techniques. Lead the way in decision-making, providing the tools and data insights needed to ensure our systems continue to support critical business outcomes. Be the trailblazer who carves innovative pathways, not just to...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Workplace Personal Investing team. As we embark on building an innovative greenfield platform, we are seeking an experienced Technical solutions leader to design, develop, and maintain software solutions that support wealth management platforms and client-facing applications specifically in the investing product space.   Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain software solutions that support wealth management platforms and client-facing applications. Grow the team's ability to own and design all software development layers of a solution. Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work. Listen and guide debates to help reach consensus. Clearly communicate and back final decisions. Proactively nurture talent of the senior staff in the area. Lead design and delivery of High Yield Savings platform components including account setup (FDIC, joint...

What You'll Do: As a member of the Principal Enterprise Architecture team, you will be responsible for leading the development of architecture solutions and technology strategy for the Enterprise ServiceNow platform. This enterprise shared platform is used to advance our employee experience and digital transformation strategies. The ServiceNow Technology Platform Architect will actively collaborate with the Technology Platform Owner, Product Manager, and key partners to ensure Principal’s ServiceNow solutions are successfully designed, developed, deployed, and operated. In addition to the development of technical architecture, you will be a beacon for employee experience, education, advanced topics research, and mentorship across the company.   You’ll have the opportunity to: Define platform architecture standards and ensure appropriate alignment of process and technology solutions with platform architecture guidance. Lead platform architecture strategies to...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an experienced, Senior Software Engineer to join our Workplace Personal Investing team. As we embark on building an innovative greenfield platform, we are seeking an experienced Technical solutions leader (individual contributor) to design, develop, and maintain software solutions that support wealth management platforms and client-facing applications specifically in the investing product space.   Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain software solutions that support wealth management platforms and client-facing applications. Grow the team's ability to own and design all software development layers of a solution. Multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work. Listen and guide debates to help reach consensus. Clearly communicate and back final decisions. Proactively nurture talent of the senior staff in the area. Architect secure, compliant, and extensible APIs to support both customer-facing...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Private Markets Product Manager with a specific focus on real estate to define, develop, implement, and maintain investment products through their lifecycle! In this role, you'll serve as a liaison with the distribution teams, product specialists, and product development Assess competitor capabilities, figure out the best industry practices, and examine what differentiates best in class products and managers allowing the team to build strategies and find opportunities that are durable, profitable and aligned with the vision and objectives of Principal Real Estate Collaborate with Product Development and the distributions teams to coordinate timely and thorough communication to investors to support their investment due diligence effort Project manage and socialize fund launches with all relevant partners across Principal Asset Management Assist with the structuring and documentation of new and existing funds Work closely with...

What You'll Do: As an Advisor Relationship Associate , you will be responsible for providing fundamental services and support to financial professionals in order to acquire new business and serve, grow and retain existing retirement business. Alongside Advisor Care teammates, serve as a key point of contact to financial professionals and their support staff. Coordinate with other service teams across RIS. Customer Service & Relationship Management: Partner with Advisor Relationship Consultant/Specialist as a key point of contact to the advisor to deliver excellent service. Ensure deliverables are appropriate, complete, and accurate. Take ownership of escalated/time-sensitive service issues. Clear, concise communication is required with both internal and external audiences. Business Operations & Analysis: Coordinate with internal partners & manage investment and fee change process. Create and maintain accurate documentation in Salesforce. Technology &...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Financial Analyst V to join our Benefits & Protection Finance team. In this role, you’ll focus on financial analysis and modeling of expense impacts for strategic initiatives and other projects. Provide expertise, project support, and project leadership for complex projects in support of the financial function and the goals of the business unit. This includes identifying project barriers, alternative solutions for implementation, follow up actions needed, and the impact on financial and other goals of the company. Lead large projects that could involve the coordination of several areas. Must be able to manage and prioritize several small projects at the same time. Perform financial analysis and research; identify trends and variances on a timely basis for use by management and other operating areas in decision making. Make recommendations as appropriate. Initiate opportunities to provide technical and business expertise to...

What You'll Do: We’re hiring for a Financial Analyst III to join our Life Pricing Actuarial team. In this role, we are looking for someone who thrives on solving unique problems with advance analytical skills and enjoys working with several internal partners and tools. Tasks Include: Participate in the maintenance, preparation and analysis of financial information used in the product development and pricing processes Work with a variety of technology including R, SAS, Excel, and Integrate/MG-ALFA to set rates, analyze profitability and competitiveness, provide reinsurance support, and much more Use strong technical skills to do financial research and calculations, as well as maintain and build both new and existing processes Collaborate across teams, partner with product management, inforce management, underwriting, technology teams, financial reporting, and others Perform other job-related duties and special projects as needed Operating at the intersection...