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What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Senior Delivery Manager Leader to join our IT Service Center BU Enablement team! In this role, you will lead and own key areas of software delivery by setting strategic direction, implementing modern delivery practices, and overseeing the full project lifecycle. This includes defining release plans, leading sprint schedules, and driving execution across one or more agile teams. You will focus on improving delivery system stability, scalability, and overall efficiency through strong cross-functional collaboration.

As a formal leader, you'll lead a team and champion a culture of continuous learning and innovation. You will promote customer-centric product development and help build consistent delivery practices across the organization.

You'll have the opportunity to:

+ Lead, design, and influence Lean, Product, and Technology practices with business partners, driving alignment and adoption across the enterprise. This includes championing modern engineering practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), DevOps, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

+ Establish good relationships across the enterprise to create a more efficient and effective delivery system, enabling the team to deliver high-value software solutions

+ Partner with Product Managers to define roadmaps and translate them into clear, customer-centric user stories

+ Serve as an advocate for experimentation, continuous improvement, and data-informed decision-making

+ Work across the value stream to cultivate a product mindset, guiding teams in adopting product development techniques that integrate real-time feedback loops

+ Identify and recommend solutions to improve the tools, processes, and methods used in software development. Encourage a learning culture that embraces change

+ Define, orchestrate, and lead all aspects of the product delivery lifecycle, including release planning, sprint cadence, and milestone execution across multiple agile teams

+ Establish and track key success metrics (e.g., cycle time, throughput, team velocity, and deployment frequency) to continuously improve team effectiveness and delivery efficiency. Use data to identify opportunities for growth and drive performance improvements

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 (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) and 8+ years work experience or equivalent experience

+ 7+ years experience managing software/application development projects

+ Strong leadership experience

+ Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints

+ Ability to connect with executives and stakeholders regarding issues of project scope and status

+ Advanced planning/organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making, presentation, and communication skills

+ Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both IT and non-IT partners

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

+ 8+ years of Agile team experience in any well-known software environment

+ Experience with SaaS solutions and working with vendor solutions

+ Experience using delivery and team performance metrics (e.g., cycle time, throughput, velocity, deployment frequency) to drive continuous improvement, identify bottlenecks, and enhance overall team effectiveness and efficiency

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)

$123000 - $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

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 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.

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

6/4/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

6/4/2025

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