Principal Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer. This position is for Core Banking Modernization program which aims to setup new and modern enterprise-wide capabilities to support Core Banking.
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:

• Technology oriented B.E/B Tech Degree or equivalent advanced degree
• 7 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a principal or staff engineer role.
• Proven experience in modernizing heritage systems into microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience in database migration and transformation, from relational to NoSQL and/or polyglot persistence.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI/ML tools, GenAI coding assistants (Copilot, Code Whisperer, etc.), and automation platforms.
• Solid grounding in resilience engineering concepts and experience in SRE practices.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments like financial services is a plus.
• Has skills to conduct various performance tests for e.g., Load, spike, breakpoint, endurance etc to understand application/ service limits.
• Domain Functional Knowledge - Banking, Financial Services, Payments

Job Expectations:
1) Modernization Strategy & Execution:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Architect and implement modernization initiatives including breaking monoliths into loosely coupled, event-driven microservices.
• Guide domain decomposition aligned with business capabilities and platform scalability goals.
• Lead transformation of heritage DBs to modern, fit-for-purpose data stores.

2) Platform Engineering & Enablement:

• Define and implement reusable frameworks, developer tools, and golden paths to improve productivity and consistency.
• Champion adoption of cloud-native architectures and CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps principles.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure high quality code and adherence to best engineering practices

3) AI/GenAI-Driven Engineering:

• Identify and apply GenAI and intelligent automation for faster discovery, documentation, design generation, code scaffolding, and test automation.
• Partner with data science and platform teams to embed AI-powered engineering accelerators.

4) Reliability, Resiliency & Observability:

• Design and enforce SLAs/SLOs/SLIs, implement self-healing capabilities, and champion chaos engineering practices.
• Ensure platforms are fault-tolerant, recoverable, and observable at scale through distributed tracing, logging, and metrics.

5) Collaboration & Leadership:

• Collaborate across business, product, and architecture teams to define technical direction and long-term platform vision.
• Mentor engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture and continuous learning environment.
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Act as a technical advisor, solving complex engineering problems and making decisions on system architecture and design
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of production issues, especially those related to core banking modernization

Posting End Date:
13 Aug 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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