Sr Software Engineer II (Modernization - Workflow Platform & Integration)

Principal Financial Group; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Eligible

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Principal Financial Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead architectural oversight for modernizing our process orchestration and workflow platform within the Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) division. You will drive scalable, secure, and observable solutions and mentor teams across business and technology stakeholders.

In this role, you will shape strategy for configurable enterprise capabilities, partner with stakeholders, and ensure delivery of mission-critical initiatives in a

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor's degree in computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise-level engineering experience with progressive responsibility.
• 5+ years of professional experience with AWS (GCP/Azure optional).
• Experience collaborating in a matrixed environment.
• Experience architecting or modernizing SaaS platforms or configurable enterprise apps.
• Experience designing workflow-based systems and orchestration across multiple apps/teams.
• Informal team leadership experience with strategic direction to a group.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills for complex technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight for modernization of the process orchestration and workflow platform.
• Design scalable solutions and guide architectural decisions for mission-critical initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, product and technology stakeholders to translate objectives into robust technical solutions.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, roadmaps, and integration patterns for platform modernization.
• Champion a results-driven culture and mentor engineering teams toward shared goals.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Communication

Education

Associate or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

**What You'll Do**

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) business. In this role, you'll serve as an engineering leader providing architectural oversight for the modernization of our process orchestration and workflow platform by designing scalable solutions, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring the successful delivery of mission-critical initiatives that shape the future of our retirement solutions.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Drive technological innovation by identifying strategic opportunities to evolve our retirement solutions into a scalable enterprise platform that delivers maximum business impact.
• Design and influence architecture for complex, workflow-driven systems, including business process orchestration across core platforms, APIs, services, and enterprise integrations.
• Assess emerging technologies and architectural patterns, including cloud-native, event-driven, and API-first approaches, and provide guidance on technical direction, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.
• Create and maintain solution architecture artifacts, reference architectures, integration patterns, and technical roadmaps that enable scalable platform modernization, guiding implementation teams.
• Partner with business, product and technology stakeholders to transform business objectives and operational processes into robust technical solutions, while effectively bridging communication between technical and non-technical teams
• Shape product and platform strategy by establishing compelling technical vision for configurable, reusable and extensible enterprise capabilities.
• Champion an exceptional engineering team by fostering innovation, mentoring talent, and supporting a results-driven culture founded on trust and accountability.
• Ensure solutions are designed for scalability, resiliency, security, observability, and business continuity in a highly regulated environment.

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**

**We are looking for someone with:**

• Associate or bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise-level engineering experience, demonstrating progressive responsibility and impact.
• 5+ years of professional experience working with AWS (open to GCP & Azure).
• Experience working in a collaborative matrixed environment.
• Experience architecting or modernizing SaaS platforms, domain platforms, or highly configurable enterprise applications.
• Experience designing workflow-based systems, business process automation, or orchestration solutions spanning multiple applications and teams.
• Informal team leadership experience, mentoring and providing strategic direction to a team.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through complex technical challenges.

**Skills That Will Help You Stand Out:**

• Proven track record in solution architecture and system design
• Experience with process orchestration, workflow engines, or business process automation platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to modernize while maintaining business continuity.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.

**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 (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)**

$127000 - $171000 / 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

**Work Environments**

This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek). You'll work with y