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What You'll Do

We're looking for a visionary software engineering leader to lead our Treasury IT portfolio. In this role, you’ll formally lead, coach, and mentor while actively contributing to the modernization of our treasury platform. Our goal is to divest legacy solutions and transition to modern architecture and vendor platforms.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

+ Manage a team of engineers driving DevOps practices and cloud strategy, implementing and maintaining enterprise technology solutions for Treasury globally to expand business functions (configuration, security, integration, cloud/SaaS, vendor interaction, etc.)

+ Collaborate with business and vendor partners and cross-discipline technology team members around the world on future technical trends/directions to meet business strategy initiatives, making well-reasoned design decisions and trade-offs between technical, analytical, and product needs

+ Drive automation to improve business and technology efficiency and collaborate with team, business, and Enterprise Architecture to build out Finance data strategy

+ Own and design all software development layers of a solution, regularly delivering software on-time and making accurate estimates

+ Demonstrate design thinking and create solution architectures, owning design and solution architecture for team's work across multiple vendor platform systems

+ Provide technical advice and weigh in on technical decisions impacting finance teams or the company at large, researching, influencing, and proposing new technologies

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

Who You Are

+ Associate's or Bachelor's degree with a preference in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field or equivalent work experience

+ 6+ years of technology and/or engineering experience

+ Formal team leadership experience, coaching and enabling engineering teams and individuals

+ Desire to learn new technology and motivate others to do the same

+ Wide experience with a diverse set of technologies and software modernization techniques, approaches, tools, etc.

+ Exceptional verbal/written communication and facilitation/presentation skills

+ Ability to work with multi-functional teams and collaborate with both It and non-IT partners at all levels

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

+ SaaS model tooling and Vendor integration and management

+ AWS

+ Python & CDK

+ IT Treasury or IT Finance experience

Salary Range Information

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.

Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)

$112000 - $167000 / year

Time Off Program

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

Yes

Additional Information

Job Level

We'll consider talent at the next level (Sr Software Engineer II) with the right experiences and skills.

Hours

This role has an expectation for US domestic core business hours with occasional early morning meetings with our global counterparts.

Work Environments

This role offers an in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA.

Our Engineering Culture

Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We’re driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants 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.

Nonimmigrant Workers (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers) to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window

We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.

Original Posting Date

4/16/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

5/5/2025

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