Principal Engineer (AI Engineering)
Wells Fargo2 days ago
Columbus, OH, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$159k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise strategy and operational execution for adopting AI-powered engineering tools.
- Coordinate large-scale technology rollouts across multiple business and technology organizations.
- Manage adoption operations including prioritization, onboarding, access readiness, usage monitoring, communications, and intervention routines.
- Analyze adoption, utilization, delivery, and engineering productivity data to identify opportunities and inform leadership decisions.
- Define dashboard requirements, validate data quality, analyze trends, and evaluate relationships between AI tool usage and delivery outcomes.
- Advise leadership on complex technology solutions and provide vision and direction for innovative business solutions.
- Operate champion networks, field enablement models, communities of practice, or train-the-trainer programs.
- Manage software licenses and technology entitlements based on utilization and business value.
- Support financial management, vendor oversight, pilot governance, and build-versus-buy decisions for engineering tools.
- Prepare executive updates, frame decisions, escalate risks, and provide actionable recommendations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Experience coordinating large-scale technology rollouts across multiple organizations.
- Experience managing adoption operations and distributed networks of engineering leaders, champions, administrators, analysts, and vendors.
- Strong analytical capability with adoption, utilization, delivery, and engineering productivity data.
- Ability to define dashboard requirements, validate data quality, analyze trends, and translate findings into leadership decisions.
- Working knowledge of AI-assisted and autonomous engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable platforms.
- Understanding of software delivery workflows, repositories, pull requests, engineering metrics, and adoption barriers.
- Strong executive communication skills and experience operating in a large, matrixed, regulated enterprise.
- Experience with DORA, SPACE, or internal engineering productivity scorecards.
- Experience evaluating AI tool usage against throughput, cycle time, quality, backlog reduction, and pull request completion.
- Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, GitHub analytics, Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent reporting ecosystems.
- Experience managing software licenses or technology entitlements based on utilization and business value.
- Familiarity with financial management, vendor oversight, pilot governance, or build-versus-buy decisions.
- Experience preparing executive-level updates for CIO, COO, finance, engineering, or transformation leadership.
- Prior experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
- Health benefits.
- 401(k) Plan.
- Paid time off.
- Disability benefits.
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave.
- Critical caregiving leave.
- Discounts and savings.
- Commuter benefits.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Scholarships for dependent children.
- Adoption reimbursement.
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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.