Responsibilities

What You'll do

As a Consultant Data Engineer at Principal Financial Group, you will lead enterprise-scale data engineering delivery for our Data & Analytics Technology Program. This role will define technical direction, guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, improve engineering culture, and drive predictable, high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in Snowflake, AWS, Python, SQL, and modern orchestration, with the ability to translate business and product priorities into resilient, governed, and scalable data products.

You'll Have Opportunity To

Own technical direction for complex, enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives across Snowflake, AWS, and orchestration platforms.
Lead architecture, design, and operational readiness for resilient, secure, scalable, and governed data products.
Partner with Product Managers, Architects, SRE, and Engineering Leads to translate business priorities into feasible technical roadmaps.
Guide discovery and solution-shaping by assessing feasibility, platform capability, architecture fit,



data dependencies, and delivery risks.
Drive engineering excellence through quality practices, delivery metrics, DevOps adoption, secure coding, automated testing, and continuous improvement.
Mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and build reusable patterns, frameworks, and knowledge assets for the team.
Communicate progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

Who You are:

Experience: 8 to 12 years

Education

Bachelor’s(Engineering)/Master’s in computer science or a related field.

12+ years of data engineering experience, including significant hands-on delivery and 5+ years in technical leadership, architecture, or lead engineer responsibilities.
Deep expertise in Snowflake, AWS, Python, SQL, Airflow, GitHub, and relational data platforms.
Robust capability in data architecture, dimensional modeling, pipeline optimization, data

📌 Consultant - Data Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Principal Financial Group
📍 Hyderabad