We’re looking for an Assistant Director of Engineering to join our Workplace Personal Investing team. In this critical role, you’ll lead the build of groundbreaking greenfield products that transform how people invest for their future, while leading high performing engineering teams, driving high-impact technical outcomes. As a strategic and technical leader, you’ll drive innovation, guide architectural decisions, and ensure the successful delivery of critical initiatives that shape the future of our retirement and financial planning services.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Help lead engineering strategy and delivery acrossBrokerageplatform, brokerage operations, and client servicing capabilities.
• Help manage integrations withclearing firms such asNFS, Pershing or LPL andvendor tools thatprovideadvisor-client collaboration capabilities.
• Own delivery across key wealth platform domains, including advisor tools, client experience, brokerage integration, and servicing operations.
• Drive technological innovation by identifying strategic opportunities that deliver maximum business impact to build and grow our services.
• Assess emerging technologies and influence technical direction, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide strategic initiatives and solution architecture practices and principals.
• Partner with key stakeholders to transform business objectives into robust technical solutions, while effectively bridging communication between technical and non-technical teams
• Shape product strategy and establish compelling technical vision through active participation in enterprise-level programs.
• Cultivate an exceptional engineering team by fostering innovation, mentoring talent, and building an outcome-driven culture founded on trust and accountability.

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

We are looking for someone with:

• Bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of technical experience, demonstrating progressive responsibility and impact with a strong focus on quality.
• Formal Leadership experience is required (successfully leading and mentoring direct reports)
• Leadership Experiences:
• Guiding engineers through complex business challenges
• Designing and deploying resilient and scalable solutions
• Building alignment among diverse stakeholders
• Navigating enterprise-level partnerships
• Leadership Qualities:
• Strategic and innovative mindset
• Adaptability in dynamic environments
• Influential communication and collaboration skills

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• 4+ years of Wealth management technology experience is strongly preferred.
• Advanced experience with retail retirement products or within the financial services industry
• Proven track record in solution architecture and systems design
• Demonstrated ability to solve for the future.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)

This 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, or Charlotte, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

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

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.

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.

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