Principal Engineer - Data Engineering
Wells Fargo3 days ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive enterprise data engineering strategy, architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud-native data platforms, data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and enterprise data products.
- Architect ingestion, transformation, conformance, data movement, batch, real-time, event-driven, and streaming data pipelines.
- Establish data modeling, metadata-driven, configuration-driven, governance, lineage, catalog, data quality, observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence standards.
- Lead architecture reviews, engineering governance, cloud migration, platform consolidation, legacy transformation, and adoption of reusable engineering frameworks.
- Drive DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, security, privacy, auditability, regulatory reporting, and compliance practices.
- Partner with enterprise architects, product owners, platform engineering, production support, reliability engineering, business leaders, and other stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership for complex enterprise programs, mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and improve platform stability through root cause analysis.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 5+ years designing and implementing data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and enterprise data platforms.
- 5+ years of experience with distributed data processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Dataproc, Hadoop ecosystems, or similar platforms.
- 5+ years building cloud-native data solutions with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, or equivalent cloud platforms.
- 5+ years of programming experience using Python, Java, SQL, or similar engineering languages.
- 5+ years of expertise in ETL/ELT architecture, data integration patterns, and enterprise data movement strategies.
- 5+ years of knowledge of security, encryption, access controls, and enterprise risk management requirements.
- Experience with BigQuery, BigLake, Apache Iceberg, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, DataPlex Knowledge Catalog, Lakehouse Runtime Catalog, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native orchestration platforms is desired.
- Experience with DataOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, data governance, metadata and catalog solutions, observability, monitoring, SRE practices, audit, regulatory programs, and data quality frameworks is desired.
- Experience leading cross-functional and globally distributed engineering teams and large-scale technology transformation programs is desired.
- Experience with Medallion Architecture, Data Mesh, domain-oriented data architecture, self-service analytics, data products, real-time streaming, and highly available fault-tolerant platforms is desired.
- Financial services, regulatory reporting, financial crimes, AML, fraud, KYC, risk management, or compliance experience is desired.
- Advanced enterprise architecture and technology governance knowledge, strong architecture documentation and stakeholder management skills, and experience evaluating AI/ML-enabled data engineering and intelligent automation are desired.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule with required on-site work at the listed location in Irving, Texas.
- The position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPythonSQLTerraform
Categories
Data Engineering
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.