Assistant Director - Engineering, Digital Trust & Transparency

Principal Financial Group

1d • $141,000 - $191,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for an Assistant Director of Engineering to join our Digital Trust & Transparency (DTT) team, which underpins enterprise customer experience by delivering scalable, secure platforms for Consent and Preference Management, Data Privacy Management- Cookies and Data Subject Requests, and Customer Protection Notices. You’ll lead a product centric engineering team to set technical direction, coach engineers, and partner with Product, Architecture, Marketing, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Data Governance to translate policy into resilient, customer safe capabilities used across the enterprise. You'll have the opportunity to: Own engineering strategy and delivery for Digital Trust & Transparency products; driving reliability, scalability, security, and observability Build and mentor a high performing engineering team that delivers consistently through product mindset and agile principles Operationalize privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR/CCPA/TCPA) via platform controls, audit trails, and versioning embedded in the lifecycle Integrate across the enterprise to enforce consent states and propagate preferences across channels using event‑driven and API-first patterns Partner across Product, Marketing, Privacy, Legal, Security, and Data Governance to prioritize outcomes and align roadmaps to enterprise needs 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!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of enterprise-level technical experience, demonstrating progressive responsibility and impact
• Formal people leadership experience, coaching team members on best engineering practices
• Ability to work with multi-functional teams and collaborate with both It and non-IT partners at all levels

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of technology leadership managing and mentoring direct reports; proven ability to build strong teams and a culture of accountability
• Experience in working with third-party solutions, developing and managing integrations, and vendor management
• Experience architecting distributed systems (APIs, microservices, eventing) with strong observability and SRE practices
• Practical knowledge of data privacy and consent frameworks and vendors (OneTrust, PossibleNow, etc)
• Cloud proficiency (AWS preferred) and modern DevOps tooling
• Background in consent/preference platforms or customer protection notifications integrated with enterprise data ecosystems

Responsibilities

• Own engineering strategy and delivery for Digital Trust & Transparency products; driving reliability, scalability, security, and observability
• Build and mentor a high performing engineering team that delivers consistently through product mindset and agile principles
• Operationalize privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR/CCPA/TCPA) via platform controls, audit trails, and versioning embedded in the lifecycle
• Integrate across the enterprise to enforce consent states and propagate preferences across channels using event‑driven and API-first patterns
• Partner across Product, Marketing, Privacy, Legal, Security, and Data Governance to prioritize outcomes and align roadmaps to enterprise needs

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees