Director or Assistant Director - Enterprise Architecture
Principal Financial Group
Full-time
other-general
Location
Des Moines, IA, United States
Posted
July 28, 2026
Job Description
**What You'll Do**
We're looking for an Application Domain Lead to shape how software is designed and delivered across the enterprise. This role may be filled at the Director or Assistant Director level, depending on experience. This senior individual contributor role sits within Enterprise Architecture and connects architecture direction with practical engineering execution. You will define reusable patterns, standards, and guidance that help teams make consistent technical decisions, embed non-functional requirements early, and build secure, reliable systems without unnecessary friction.
**You Might Be Who We're Looking ** **For** ** If...**
+ You’re the person on your current team who sees the same architectural mistakes repeated across squads and wants to solve them once, at the pattern level. You’ve spent years designing and building distributed systems, and you’ve seen good teams make avoidable decisions when they did not have clear, practical guidan...
We're looking for an Application Domain Lead to shape how software is designed and delivered across the enterprise. This role may be filled at the Director or Assistant Director level, depending on experience. This senior individual contributor role sits within Enterprise Architecture and connects architecture direction with practical engineering execution. You will define reusable patterns, standards, and guidance that help teams make consistent technical decisions, embed non-functional requirements early, and build secure, reliable systems without unnecessary friction.
**You Might Be Who We're Looking ** **For** ** If...**
+ You’re the person on your current team who sees the same architectural mistakes repeated across squads and wants to solve them once, at the pattern level. You’ve spent years designing and building distributed systems, and you’ve seen good teams make avoidable decisions when they did not have clear, practical guidan...