What You'll Do We’re looking for an Assistant Director of Engineering to join our Workplace Benefits Sales team. In this role, you’ll lead software engineering teams on one of our highest priority product families to foster a high performing culture. You will partner with business stakeholders, product managers, and technology peers to ensure the modernization of our quoting and onboarding capabilities are aligned with business need and technology strategy. Drive Innovation and Growth: Identify and seize new opportunities through modern technology solutions and practices. Lead with assertiveness and resilience, overcoming challenges to deliver impactful outcomes. Inspire Accountability and Excellence: Foster a culture of accountability by setting clear expectations and providing regular, constructive feedback. Engage and motivate employees with a compelling mission, coaching them to reach their highest potential. Act decisively on performance concerns, providing coaching to elevate or make necessary changes. Shape Workplace Benefits Technology Strategy and Vision: Work closely with product teams and other technology leaders to develop and communicate bold, forward-thinking strategies that inspire teams to deliver results. Paint the big picture, focusing on global thinking across teams and business units. Build resiliency in both systems and processes, ensuring stability and value in every delivery. Stay Ahead of Technology Trends: Evaluate emerging technology developments. Consult and communicate with business partners to understand business strategy and make recommendations on future technical trends/directions that will enable differentiating outcomes. Develop and Empower Talent: Build and mentor high-performing teams, recognizing and nurturing exceptional talent. Encourage growth mentalities and coach your teams to excel, ensuring individual and collective success. You’ll listen actively, communicate candidly, and always show respect for your team. 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 Bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) or equivalent experience 8 or more years of related experience in an enterprise environment Excellent leadership, problem solving, analytical, time management, change management, delegation, and decision making skills Experience supporting engineers with business problems, solutioning architectural issues and planning by engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels Adaptable, flexible, innovative, influential, collaborative, and have the ability to learn from experiences and setbacks and make changes based on those experiences Skills That Will Help You Stand Out Experience in a technology leadership role, leading direct reports as well as leaders AWS Solutions architecture or engineering background Leading modernization efforts Experience developing and driving engineering strategies to align with organizational goals, ensuring scalable and innovative solutions 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) $137000 - $185000 / 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 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 and 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 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 12/4/2024 Most Recently Posted Date 12/4/2024 LinkedIn Hashtag #LI-EW1