Experienced Software Engineer (AWS - Hybrid Only)

Principal Financial Group • Raleigh, NC

14d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Non-Qualified Retirement IT Experience Product Family within our Benefits & Protection business. In this role, you'll serve as a strategic technology leader, partnering with product managers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to articulate architectural vision, guide technical direction, and ensure technology investments align with business outcomes. If you thrive at the intersection of business strategy, product driven organizations, and applying technical architecture, this role offers the opportunity to influence the design of scalable, secure, and resilient solutions while enabling engineering teams to deliver business value efficiently. The ideal candidate combines strong architectural thinking with practical software engineering experience excelling at translating complex business needs into actionable technical strategies and roadmaps.

Requirements

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field and 6+ years work experience or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to influence others through formal/informal leadership
• 4+ years of proven expertise in software solutioning and design is required
• 4+ years of experience working with AWS (open to others)
• Proven experience as an IT professional (a strong foundation in hands on software development and mindset for long term architectural direction, aligning incremental solutions).

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in Financial Services (Retirement & Insurance)
• Experience operating in a Product driven organization
• Salesforce experience
• Traditional Java & JavaScript
• Community/COE(Center of excellence) engagement & influence
• Take ownership and pride in your work. A voice for stewardship.
• Hungry, curious, driven and the ability to take initiative.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers, business leaders, engineers, and enterprise architects to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
• Anticipate technical challenges, identify architectural risks, and develop strategies that enable long-term product growth and sustainability.
• Define and evolve solution architectures that align product strategy, business capabilities, and enterprise technology standards.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple applications, services, and platforms to ensure scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Research emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending opportunities that advance product and business objectives.
• Influence technology direction across product teams through architecture reviews, design guidance, standards, and best practices.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and build alignment around strategic decisions.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads, fostering architectural excellence and helping teams develop scalable, supportable solutions.
• Drive collaborative problem solving across teams by clarifying ambiguity, resolving dependencies, and aligning stakeholders on a path forward.

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.
• Pension Eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree