Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer for the Shared Services Technology organization. This Principal Engineer will help enable the transformation of data environments. This person should be able to vision, articulate the vision, and execute on it. The scope will be consumer data, across multiple lines of businesses and product lines, partnering with other engineering managers, product owners and front-line business experts. Be able to look around the bend, problem solve and work with competing priorities. Be seen as an influencer and hands on leader. Will drive current state assessments, establish optimal target state and roadmap.
In this role, you will:
Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
Define and implement Data Strategy for private and public cloud
Lead and perform current state data assessments, create future state vision, strategy, roadmap
Ensure Data-related design patterns, best practices are central to technology practices in the organization
Create and manage reusable frameworks for data engineering and establish architecture patterns for data engineering across traditional and big-data solutions
Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
Partner with Enterprise teams and Line of Business partners on customer-centric view of the data, data reuse, and data consistency across all customer interactions
Establish processes and tools to support consistency, lineage, collection, processing, sharing, and organization of data across Home Lending portfolio
Establish Home Lending wide data standards and governance. Manage data as a strategic asset and operationalize data governance, data quality, and controls across the organization
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
7+ years of technical leadership or architecture experience, in a data and technical environment to include Data Engineering, Data Management, ETL, Big Data Hadoop, AI/ML capabilities
3+years of cloud data solutions experience
Desired Qualifications:
A master's degree or higher in computer science or finance
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Experience Hadoop ecosystem tools such as Apache Flume, Apache Kafka, Apache Sqoop, Apache Flink, Apache Hive or Apache Storm
Agile Scrum (CSM), SAFE certifications or other advanced Agile certifications
Experience with Agile Scrum (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings) and Kanban
Knowledge and understanding of home lending or consumer lending
7+ years of information technology systems design and planning experience in data, systems, applications, or architecture
5+ years of engineering leadership experience with large scale transformation efforts and ability to drive Technology decisions with senior level stakeholders
5+ years of experience with systems architecture and design
5+ years of experience with modern software engineering technologies and tool sets
Job Expectations:
Ability to travel up to 30% of the time
Posting End Date:
14 Jul 2025*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. 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.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.