Software Engineer (Data Applications)
What you'll do:
Enterprise Data & Applications is building a 360-degree view of our customers to enable analytics, business intelligence, and data pipelines across the enterprise. We are looking for a Software Engineer passionate about programming and data to join our agile, product team and help design, build, and support our enterprise analytics ecosystem. If this sounds exciting to you; apply today!
Here are few examples of the kinds of things you’ll do:
- Design and implement reliable and efficient data-pipelines from ingestion to consumption.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that test and deploy software, data, and infrastructure artifacts across managed environments.
- Integrate data from a variety of systems into refined data products available to the rest of the enterprise.
- Write scalable software collaboratively with fellow engineers.
- Work directly with stakeholders to optimize existing solutions and architect new ones to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Experiment with new technologies and practices to find creative solutions to complex problems.
What you'll get from us:
- Competitive pay, benefits, perks and more. We’ll reward you for the skills and experience you have. Find out more.
- A great place to live, work and play. Greater Des Moines is one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country. Given its vibrant and welcoming culture, it’s no wonder Des Moines has garnered so much national recognition—including #3 Best Affordable Place to Live (U.S. News & World Report, 2019).
- Respect for your unique perspective. Diversity, inclusion and empowerment are at the core of our culture.
- A career, not just a job. Principal is a place where you can learn and innovate. Do important work. Make an impact. And achieve your professional goals.
- The ability to have a great job and a great life. Sure, work is important. But so is your family. And your friends. And your community. That’s why we provide the flexibility needed to find the right balance between your job and the rest of your life.
Qualifications:
We’re looking for someone with:
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field or equivalent work experience (6 years of experience equates to an Associate’s degree when defining “equivalent work experience”) and:
- Classroom or work experience articulating your programming experience or, an internship with heavy programming experience
- Basic planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required.
- For experienced candidates, we are looking for either:
- Someone with 1+ years of professional software development experience (in addition to an Associate's or Bachelor's degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math related field)
- We would also consider a candidate who went through an intensive Code Academy or Code School program. But, you would have to also have the following:
- An Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree
- Strong academic/personal experience articulating your software development experience/expertise
Additional preferred technical experience:
- Programming languages such as Scala, Java, Python
- Familiarity with Hadoop-related tooling such as Spark, Hive, Kafka, Flume, etc.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices such as version control, CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, etc.
Job Level:
Willing to consider applicants at multiple job levels.
Multiple Openings:
This position has multiple openings available.
Work Hours:
This role does have rotational on-call responsibilities.
How we hire:
Once you apply, your application is reviewed by our talent team. Generally within a few weeks, the team makes interview selection decisions and communicates those via email. If selected, you’ll receive an email from Principal Talent Team to complete a pre-recorded interview on your own time. Be sure to check your email frequently and follow the steps shared to submit timely.
Learn more about our hiring steps and find answers to frequently asked questions.
Additional Information:
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not able to consider candidates needing sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.) However, we’d hope you continue to keep us in mind for future opportunities.
Principal is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to of age, race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, marital status, domestic partner status, military status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Need assistance? Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact Human Resources at (515) 247.MYHR (6947) or at 1.866.524.MYHR
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