Assistant Director, Business Architecture

Job overview

The Assistant Director, Business Architecture role offers in-office, hybrid, or remote arrangements; remote eligibility is limited to people living more than 30 miles from Des Moines, Iowa, Raleigh, North Carolina, or Charlotte, North Carolina. The stated salary is $141,000–$170,000 per year. The role supports Principal's Benefits & Protection business unit, which provides business owners and employees with solutions for business and financial security. The role translates business strategy into architecture perspectives, priorities, and roadmaps. It connects strategy, investment, operating models, technology, and execution while developing Business Architecture practice and capability across Benefits & Protection.

What you'll do

• Translate strategy into business outcomes, capability priorities, value stream implications, information needs, target-state perspectives, and roadmaps
• lead Business Architecture methods and practice development
• connect objectives with portfolios, products, initiatives, and technology roadmaps
• develop reusable architecture perspectives
• support discovery, future-state design, operating model analysis, vendor evaluation, and transformation
• and coach architects and partners.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

assistant director

business architecture

benefits & protection

principal financial group

enterprise architecture

business strategy

capability maps

value streams

target-state architecture

transformation roadmaps

hybrid

remote eligibility

$141,000–$170,000/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Flexible Time Off for salaried employees and pension eligibility
• the posting also describes comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and social well-being.

Why this role

Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 10+ years of related experience in a complex, multi-business-unit organization. Sponsorship is not available. The role may be in-office, hybrid, or remote subject to the stated distance condition.

About the employer

Principal Financial Group is hiring for this role. Industry: Pharmacy Benefit Management and Other Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds. Sector: 52.