What You'll DoThe Distribution Data Governance team sits within Benefits & Protection Distribution. We are the business-side stewards of Distribution data: the firms, financial professionals and relationships that shape how Principal's products are sold, serviced and retained. We work closely with Enterprise Data & Analytics Governance, the Distribution Data Domain Steering Group, Sales Compensation Administration, Master Data Management, Privacy, Compliance and B&P Data & Analytics. Together, we make sure the data behind partner strategy, and executive decisions is clearly defined, trusted and fit for purpose.
What You’ll Do:
- Serve as a Data Steward for Distribution subdomains, including Firm, Financial Professional and Distribution Relationships. Represent B&P in sub-domain working groups and bring recommendations to the Distribution Data Domain Steering Group.
- Write, refine and move business term definitions, data quality rules, taxonomy structures and entity relationship diagrams through certification. Settle conflicting definitions across business units.
- Link certified business terms to technical attributes in the enterprise data catalog, so definitions, classifications and quality standards carry through to the systems and data products that use them.
- Help designate Core Data Elements and Key Joining Attributes. Help data products built on the Enterprise Data Foundation reach full governance scores and certification.
- Lead root-cause analysis and remediation with Data Custodians, engineering and operations partners. Turn recurring issues into lasting controls instead of one-off fixes.
- Govern firm hierarchies, parent-child rollups and relationship mappings through acquisitions, consolidations and restructures. Assess downstream impacts on policy ownership, attribution and reporting.
- Contribute to data governance communities of practice, maturity scoring, newsletters and data literacy efforts. Mentor analysts and raise the team's governance fluency.
Who You Are
We are looking for someone with:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Analytics, Finance, Business, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of related work experience, with three years proven experience with a combination of reporting, analysis, development and administration
- Intermediate SQL, including profiling, validating and reconciling large datasets in cloud data platforms.
- Working knowledge of data governance disciplines: metadata, business glossary, data quality rules, lineage, classification and master data.
- Data modeling literacy: ERDs, cardinality, primary, foreign and surrogate keys, and dimensional modeling.
- Proven ability to lead working sessions to decisions and to translate between business, technical and executive audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in insurance, financial services or employee benefits distribution, especially broker and general agency ecosystems and firm hierarchies.
- Experience with enterprise data catalog or governance platforms (Data360, Ataccama, Alation or similar).
- Experience with data products, certification frameworks or data contracts.
- Technical experience with Snowflake, AWS, DB2, SAS, Power BI
How We Work:
- Steward mindset: You treat data as an enterprise asset, not a byproduct.
- Systems thinking: You see how a definition change propagates to a calculation, dashboard or report.
- Intellectual rigor: You validate first, and you show your work.
Salary Range InformationSalary 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$73150 - $105000 / year
Time Off ProgramFlexible 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 EligibleYes
Additional Information
Work Environments
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering candidates 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 Global Investors 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.
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Posting WindowWe 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)10/12/2026
Latest Post Date: Careers - US10/12/2026
