Principal Engineer - Public Cloud Data
Wells FargoBase Salary
$159k - $254k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise target-state architecture for cloud-native data, analytics, AI/ML, and Agentic AI platforms.
- Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical governance.
- Lead modernization of legacy data platforms and architect lakehouse, data mesh, streaming, and real-time analytics ecosystems.
- Define standards for data ingestion, transformation, governance, metadata, lineage, cataloging, and data quality.
- Lead development of Agentic AI solutions, including orchestration, reasoning engines, MCP-based integrations, multi-agent workflows, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Architect AI-enabled automation for data onboarding, pipeline generation, metadata enrichment, policy enforcement, data quality validation, incident remediation, and operational intelligence.
- Establish responsible AI, explainability, model governance, auditability, and enterprise AI governance controls.
- Provide technical leadership across public-cloud compute, storage, networking, security, AI, analytics, and DevOps ecosystems.
- Drive platform reliability, scalability, resiliency, observability, disaster recovery, operational excellence, Infrastructure as Code, platform automation, and self-service capabilities.
- Partner with cybersecurity, IAM, risk, audit, regulatory compliance, engineering, architecture, product, and business leaders to deliver secure and compliant platforms.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 7 years designing enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms.
- At least 5 years delivering AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-wide cloud transformation initiatives.
- Deep expertise in one or more public-cloud platforms, with Google Cloud Platform preferred; Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services also listed.
- Strong experience with data lakehouse architectures, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst or equivalent platforms, streaming and event-driven architectures, data governance, metadata, lineage, catalog solutions, Kubernetes, container platforms, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps automation.
- Experience designing enterprise AI platforms and MLOps frameworks, including Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Agentic AI architectures, multi-agent systems, vector databases, model evaluation and monitoring, and MCP ecosystems.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, or a related field is preferred.
- Industry certifications in public cloud, data engineering, AI/ML, or security are preferred.
- Experience in highly regulated industries and contributions to standards, patents, open-source projects, or published technical thought leadership are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave, critical caregiving leave, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, dependent-child scholarships, adoption reimbursement, and discounts and savings.
- Hybrid work schedule; telecommuting is not an option.
- Relocation assistance is not available.
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
- Base pay range is $159,000.00-$254,000.00, with potential incentive opportunities.
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About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through more than 7,300 locations, 12,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in over 40 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 250,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 41 on Fortune’s 2022 rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories. Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.© 2016 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.