Principal Engineer - Engineering Enablement
Wells Fargo1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Advise senior technology leaders on DevOps strategy, developer platform direction, engineering priorities, delivery risks, investments, and measurable outcomes.
- Define enterprise standards for source control, code review, builds, testing, artifact management, releases, deployments, observability, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Architect and build reusable CI/CD components, pipeline templates, self-service workflows, and paved roads for cloud, container, and hybrid environments.
- Embed security and compliance into delivery workflows through automated testing, policy enforcement, secrets protection, dependency and container scanning, artifact integrity, evidence generation, and traceable exceptions.
- Modernize delivery processes using pipeline-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, progressive delivery, and automated recovery patterns.
- Partner with application and platform teams to assess readiness, run pilots, remove systemic constraints, and scale proven solutions.
- Improve developer experience by reducing repetitive work, shortening onboarding and feedback cycles, and replacing ticket-driven processes with secure self-service.
- Use engineering metrics and developer feedback to improve adoption, delivery performance, reliability, platform usability, and business outcomes.
- Advance InnerSource, reusable engineering assets, documentation, communities of practice, and coaching.
- Evaluate and introduce AI-assisted delivery and agent-enabled engineering workflows with controls, human oversight, auditability, and measurable benefits.
- Mentor engineers, influence architecture and product decisions, and lead root-cause analysis and systemic remediation.
- Use and validate AI-assisted development and analysis tools while accounting for model limitations, security risks, operational considerations, and responsible-use requirements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination.
- 7+ years designing, building, or leading DevOps or platform engineering capabilities.
- 5+ years defining technical strategy, target-state architecture, standards, or transformation roadmaps in large, complex technology environments.
- 5+ years architecting or engineering reusable CI/CD, policy-as-code, GitOps, developer self-service, or internal developer platform capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, artifact repositories, CI/CD orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, configuration automation, and GitOps tooling.
- 5+ years of software development, scripting, or automation using Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or a comparable language.
- 5+ years working with cloud, container, or hybrid platforms, including Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams, resolve complex enterprise technology challenges, and drive adoption without direct authority.
- Experience with enterprise engineering transformation, internal developer platforms as products, DevSecOps, secure software supply chains, engineering metrics, progressive delivery, observability, resiliency engineering, incident learning, InnerSource, and cross-organizational mentorship is preferred.
- Strong executive communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical audiences are preferred.
Benefits
- The posting end date is September 17, 2026, although the job may be removed early due to applicant volume.
- Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer and provides disability accommodations upon request.
- The role is subject to Wells Fargo's risk, compliance, drug-free workplace, and recruiting and hiring requirements.
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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.