Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Principal Financial Group is a financial services company seeking a Senior Enterprise Data & Analytics Architect. The role designs, governs, and evolves enterprise data and analytics architecture across modern cloud data platforms, enabling trusted, scalable, self-service, and AI-ready decisioning. The architect will lead data platform, data product, semantic layer, metrics governance, and architectural best-practice initiatives.
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
- 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)
- At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)
- 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.
- In-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements are available; remote work is only available if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Raleigh, NC, or Charlotte, NC.
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