Principal Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join our ITSO/OFA (Observability and Foundational Automation) Organization within CTO (Chief Technology Office).  The ideal candidate will contribute to digital transformation journey of bank, by leading technology solutions aligned to key strategic priorities of OFA. The ideal candidate will have expertise in architecting and designing solutions that promote reusability, scalability, efficiency, and resiliency and possess strong communication skills to articulate the proposed solutions with both technical and business partners.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 4-year BS degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running in the cloud or hybrid environments
• 5+ year’s experience with SaaS & Hybrid architectures
• 5+ year’s experience Strong understanding of Service-Oriented and microservices architectures
• Proficiency in multiple technology stacks: Java, .Net, C#, Python, Ansible & Platforms TKGI, PCF, Cloud, OCP
• Proficiency with Observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics etc), CICD (Jenkins, Harness) & Automation tools (Ansible, Amelia)
• Hands on experience with Ai (Gen Ai, Conversational Ai, Agentic Ai), ML (models) Tools and technologies.
• Must be able to work on multiple projects and consistently meet project deadlines
• Interpersonal and communication skills, able to build rapport and communicate effectively at all levels and across disciplines

Job Expectations:

Strategic Vision & Application Roadmaps

• Translate the business vision and goals to target state application roadmaps with clear options for any tactical versus strategic trade-offs
• Develop and maintain 1–3-year application target state roadmaps aligned to the firmwide, business, and technology initiatives
• Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans

Architecture Principles and Standards

• Develop technical standards, guidelines, and reference architectures based on industry trends and best practices including microservices and cloud deployments
• Documenting architectural standards, best practices, and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient, and responsive applications

Architecture Diagrams & Documentation

• Author and maintain application use case, sequence, system context, and topology diagrams
• Document integration patterns and options
• Document Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery capabilities for applications

Solution Designs

• Facilitate buy versus build decisions and options
• Assist development teams to produce cloud migration strategies in alignment with the overall strategy and priorities established by senior Architecture leadership
• Design solutions that are fit for purpose, scalable and evolvable
• Translates business requirements into well-architected recommendations supporting working foundational platform components thus ensuring functional and non-functional aspects are met
• Promote Loosely coupled, event-driven architectures working within an agile team
• Evaluating any project constraints and devising alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering
• Conducting regular evaluations of the system architecture and collaborating with project management teams to improve the designs
• Performing continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives and to improve the existing architectures
• Work with engineers to Build, test, and present proofs of concept to demonstrate software architectures and patterns as well as help prove out the best options
• Define technology stacks that is appropriate to the project requirements and constraints

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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