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 prospect 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.
• Strong capability in data architecture, dimensional modeling, pipeline

📌 Consultant - Data Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Principal Global Services
📍 Hyderabad