Assistant Director - Engineering, Digital Trust & Transparency

What You'll Do

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!

Who You Are

• 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

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• 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

Salary Range Information

Salary 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

$141000 - $191000 / year

Time Off 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

Yes

Additional Information

Work Environments

This role offers an in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA or Charlotte, NC.
Our Engineering Culture

Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we've fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do - from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We're driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants 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 for Employment-Based Immigrants
Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management 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.
Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we're imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services - and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window

We 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)

1/7/2026

Latest Post Date: Careers - US

1/7/2026

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