Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and engineering strategy for GRC, Testing & Monitoring, and Audit modernization initiatives.
- Define target-state architecture, reusable capabilities, common services, integration patterns, data models, and shared platform services.
- Establish a common technology stack centered on React, Java microservices, shared data capabilities, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Drive adoption and evaluation of emerging technologies including Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Knowledge Graphs, and intelligent automation.
- Ensure architectural alignment across programs while enabling engineering teams to deliver independently.
- Partner with business, risk, audit, compliance, security, and engineering leaders on scalable, secure, resilient, auditable, and compliant solutions.
- Remain hands-on through architecture reviews, design sessions, prototyping, code reviews, and complex problem resolution.
- Mentor engineers and architects and elevate engineering standards across the organization.
- Advise leadership on complex enterprise technology challenges and identify opportunities for consolidation, standardization, automation, and platform reuse.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, enterprise integration patterns, distributed systems, and enterprise platforms.
- Strong frontend architecture and development experience using React and TypeScript.
- Experience modernizing platforms built on commercial products such as Archer and ServiceNow.
- Experience building reusable platforms, common services, shared engineering capabilities, and enterprise data capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and orchestration frameworks.
- Experience building AI-enabled enterprise solutions using Python.
- Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, semantic search, graph databases, and ontology-based architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, DevSecOps, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Strong understanding of data governance, auditability, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational risk.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic architecture with hands-on engineering engagement.
- Strong communication, mentoring, and stakeholder influence skills.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.