Principal Engineer
Wells FargoResponsibilities
- Act as a principal technical advisor to senior leadership and shape technology decisions across multiple business lines and the enterprise.
- Define and evolve enterprise-scale architectures for Java-based platforms and AI/GenAI solutions.
- Design, review, and occasionally code critical components while setting a high engineering standard.
- Drive the strategy, adoption, governance, and responsible implementation of AI and GenAI capabilities.
- Identify high-value AI use cases and guide teams from proof of concept to production at scale.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable, resilient, future-ready technical solutions and define technology roadmaps.
- Influence architecture and engineering standards across global, matrixed organizations without direct authority.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects and promote engineering excellence, modernization, platform thinking, and continuous learning.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor offerings, bring relevant external ideas into the enterprise, and balance innovation with operational stability and risk management.
- Measure technology success through business outcomes including time to market, developer productivity, system resilience, and customer results.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Deep hands-on engineering expertise with sustained design and development experience in Java, modern JVM stacks, distributed systems, and performance engineering.
- Experience architecting and building AI-powered solutions involving LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG patterns, model orchestration, AI pipelines, and responsible AI practices.
- Strong background in cloud-native architectures and operating systems at enterprise scale.
- Ability to serve as a technical authority across application, data, AI, platform, and security domains and influence enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
- Experience defining long-term technology strategy, reference architectures, and engineering roadmaps aligned with business outcomes.
- Understanding of GenAI trends, ecosystem evolution, emerging capabilities, and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Experience embedding AI into business workflows and guiding solutions toward productivity, risk reduction, customer experience, and operational improvements.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to executives, regulators, partners, and engineering teams.
- Proven ability to influence without authority, challenge assumptions constructively, and serve as a trusted technical advisor.
- Awareness of industry best practices, competitive landscapes, and fintech or financial services technology trends.
- Active engagement with external communities, conferences, forums, thought leadership, or standards bodies is highly desirable.
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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.