Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Principal Financial Group is a financial services organization seeking a Senior Enterprise Data & Analytics Architect. The role leads enterprise analytics architecture, cloud data platforms, data products, semantic layers, and metrics governance to enable trusted, scalable, self-service decision-making and AI-ready data.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise data and analytics architecture, standards, and roadmaps
- Design scalable analytics solutions supporting BI, AI, and self-service analytics
- Establish best practices for data modeling, semantic layers, and governed metrics
- Drive a data-as-a-product approach to improve data discoverability, quality, and reuse
- Architect and optimize modern cloud data platforms, including Snowflake and related analytics technologies
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise governance, security, privacy, and compliance standards
- Partner with business, engineering, analytics, and architecture teams to align data strategy with business goals
- Provide architectural leadership, design governance, and mentorship on analytics best practices
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in data & analytics, enterprise architecture, or analytics engineering
- 3+ years of experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies
- Strong expertise in data modeling, SQL, ETL/ELT, and analytics architecture
- Experience designing scalable analytics solutions on AWS or other cloud platforms
- Knowledge of data warehousing, lakehouse architectures, data governance, and performance optimization
- Ability to translate business needs into enterprise data and analytics solutions
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Financial services experience and architecture/cloud certifications are a plus
Benefits
- Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus 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.
- 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, Raleigh, NC, or Charlotte, NC).
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