Principal Data Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $151.8k - $220.1k / year

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and optimize scalable data engineering solutions, including streaming data services, data pipelines, data platforms, and operational data systems. • Serve as a hands-on technical leader, actively developing and implementing data engineering solutions rather than functioning solely as an architect. • Define and drive data engineering standards, patterns, best practices, and reusable frameworks. • Architect and implement highly complex, scalable data platforms and advanced data engineering solutions. • Lead complex, high-impact, cross-functional data initiatives across the organization. • Build and support streaming and data services for enterprise use, with experience beyond consuming or using existing platforms. • Establish and enforce data governance, security, data quality, and data management standards. • Ensure enterprise data platforms are reliable, well-modeled, accessible, secure, and optimized for broad consumption. • Drive innovation and modernization initiatives across data platforms, engineering practices, and cloud-based data services. • Partner with senior leadership, architects, product teams, and engineering teams on long-term data strategy and roadmap planning. • Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders across the organization. • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to advance enterprise data capabilities. • Ensure scalability, performance, resilience, and long-term sustainability of data platforms. • Champion continuous improvement and elevate engineering practices across teams. • Complete other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, such as Information Systems, Mathematics, or Software Engineering, or an equivalent combination of training and experience. • 10+ years of data engineering experience. • Certified AWS Engineer or equivalent AWS certification required. • Expert-level proficiency in Python, Spark, SQL, and modern data architectures. • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS and distributed data systems. • Proven experience building streaming data solutions, data services, and scalable data platforms, not just using existing platforms as a consumer. • Deep expertise in data modeling, ETL/ELT, data platform design, and operational data stores. • Proven experience with batch and streaming data integration at enterprise scale. • Strong experience with data governance, data quality, security standards, and data management practices. • Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling. • Expertise across modern data platforms and cloud ecosystems. • Demonstrated ability to define, influence, and implement enterprise-wide technical direction and engineering standards. • Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale data transformations and initiatives. • Exceptional leadership, mentoring, and organizational influence. • Strong communication skills with the ability to advise executive stakeholders, partner with architects, and drive technical decisions.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.