Principal Engineer - Workplace Technologies
Wells Fargo
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to shape the future of workplace technology at Wells Fargo. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, hardware platforms, and digital collaboration, with direct impact on how the entire bank’s employees connect, collaborate, and succeed in a hybrid world.
As a senior technical authority within the Workplace Technology organization, you will define and drive the architecture for a diverse portfolio of employee-facing technologies—ranging from conference room systems and enterprise print to custom-built internal tools—while ensuring security, resilience, and scalability at global scale. Your mission is bold yet simple: make technology invisible, enabling employees to focus on their best work.
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
Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- In this high-impact global role, you will serve as the Principal Engineer (L3) for a Workplace Technology product family, providing architectural leadership, deep technical oversight, and strategic direction across multiple platforms and vendors. You will bridge gaps between engineering teams, product management, and operations—translating complex challenges into elegant, scalable solutions.
Technical & Architectural Leadership
- Define and own end-to-end architectural blueprints, reference designs, and standards across software, hardware, and cloud platforms.
- Act as a torchbearer for AI-driven development, including experimentation with agentic AI tools.
- Translate near-term technical issues into long-term architectural improvements.
- Partner closely with Product Management to understand end-user needs, behaviors, and pain points, translating feedback into engineering requirements.
- Mentor and coach engineers across the organization, raising the bar for technical excellence.
Software Engineering & Development Practices
- Oversee development of bespoke internal tools, automations, and integrations that enhance workplace productivity.
- Establish and enforce best practices for SDLC, code quality, API design, and system integration.
- Accelerate engineering velocity through improved tooling, processes, and architectural patterns.
Collaboration & Workplace Experience
- Lead the engineering roadmap for Conference Room Technologies, with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR).
- Architect and modernize enterprise print services, transitioning toward secure, cloud-based “follow-me” printing while reducing on‑prem infrastructure.
- Continuously analyze the end-to-end employee journey, using data and telemetry to proactively identify friction points and improve reliability and user experience.
Job Expectations:
- Software Development & Automation: Proficiency in modern scripting or programming languages for automation and integration.
- Unified Communications & Collaboration: Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft technologies including M365, Azure, Intune, Microsoft Teams, Teams Rooms (MTR), Conditional Access, and SIP/VoIP.
- Cloud & Security: Strong understanding of cloud-first architectures, identity, access management, and enterprise security principles.
Posting End Date:
4 Mar 2026*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.
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Drug and Alcohol Policy
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Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
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