Principal Engineer - Java Full Stack-Generative AI, Agentic AI
Wells Fargo24 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for the architecture, design, engineering, modernization, and operation of mission-critical Financial Crimes and Risk Management platforms.
- Develop technology strategies, architecture direction, reusable platforms, common services, reference architectures, accelerators, and engineering frameworks used by multiple teams.
- Design and deliver Java full-stack, distributed, cloud-native, machine learning-enabled, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions.
- Lead resolution of highly complex technical challenges and maintain hands-on engagement through prototyping, design validation, code review, technical investigations, and production problem resolution.
- Define patterns for APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, model services, data pipelines, deployment, resiliency, observability, security, and operational support.
- Identify redundant platforms, duplicated capabilities, fragmented engineering patterns, and opportunities for consolidation, reuse, simplification, automation, or retirement.
- Influence executives and cross-functional stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, security, risk, and business functions.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical talent, raise engineering standards, build communities of practice, and contribute to recruiting and retaining engineering talent.
- Represent engineering perspectives in strategic planning and multi-year technology direction for Financial Crimes and Risk Management.
- Promote engineering excellence and evaluate emerging technologies for practical, governed application to business problems.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Strong hands-on experience with Core Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Strong frontend architecture and development experience with React or Angular, JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Experience designing, building, modernizing, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, domain-driven design, microservices architecture, API design, event-driven systems, integration patterns, and distributed computing.
- Hands-on experience delivering Generative AI solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, evaluation approaches, and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise platforms, backend services, digital workflows, and engineering processes in a secure, resilient, governed, and supportable manner.
- Experience defining architecture and integration patterns for machine learning-enabled systems, model services, data pipelines, and scalable deployment.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture, containers, orchestration platforms, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and site reliability engineering practices.
- Experience designing highly available and resilient systems with recovery, fault-tolerance, capacity, performance, monitoring, and operational-support patterns.
- Experience in Financial Crimes, Risk Management, banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment is desired.
- Understanding of regulatory, security, privacy, model risk, data governance, audit, resiliency, and operational-risk considerations.
- Strong executive communication, technical thought leadership, stakeholder influence, mentoring, and cross-organizational leadership abilities.
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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.