Senior Software Engineering Leader - IS Cloud Platform Team

Principal Financial

  • Des Moines, IA
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 22 days ago
What You'll Do:We’re looking for a technology leader to join our IS Cloud Platform team. In this role, you’ll focus on our enterprise cloud platforms providing leadership that will help shape Principal’s technology modernization journey. We are targeting a leader who is passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion, diversity, and safety and confident in leading an agile and product centric team.If you're a change agent and positive disruptor who thrives on innovation and building high-performing teams — we want to hear from you. Whether you're an established leader or a high impact engineer ready to formally lead, this is a great opportunity to lead a team critical to our long-term technical strategy.You'll have the opportunity to
  • Serve as a Technology Engineering Leader, accountable for strategy, team performance, and technology enablement across the enterprise
  • Act as a capability owner for key enterprise services, including:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Foundation
  • Microsoft Azure Foundation
  • Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) supporting the broader organization
  • Provide strategic leadership supporting key investments to help drive technology modernization.
  • Define and drive technical roadmaps, cloud adoption strategies, capacity planning, and forecasting and budgeting
  • Manage and grow a high-performing team — coaching, mentoring, and creating development opportunities to strengthen talent and performance
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence
  • Manage strategic vendor relationships with partners such as AWS, Microsoft, and HashiCorp
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!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. Who You Are:
  • Associate's or bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of related technical experience in an enterprise environment
  • Excellent leadership, problem solving, analytical, time management, delegation and decision-making skills
  • Experience supporting engineers with technical and business problems, solutioning architectural issues and planning by engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels
  • Adaptable, flexible, innovative, influential, collaborative and can learn from experiences and setbacks
Skills That Will Help You Stand Out
  • Direct management and leadership experience (roles in which you have had direct reports)
  • Blend of Infrastructure and Software engineering exposure/experience
  • Third party vendor management and engagement
  • Cloud experience
  • Leading modernization efforts
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: $100800 - $182400 / 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 LevelWe'll consider talent at the next level (Sr Software Engineer II) with the right experiences and skills.Work EnvironmentsThis role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Charlotte, NC, or Raleigh, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.Our Engineering CultureThrough 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/SponsorshipAt 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.andInvestment Code of EthicsFor 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 PrincipalAt 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 to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.Principal is an Equal Opportunity EmployerAll 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. Date First Posted (TTF): 8/12/2025 Latest Post Date: Careers - US: 8/12/2025LinkedIn Remote Hashtag : #LI-RemoteLinkedIn Hashtag : #LI-EW1

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