Wells Fargo · 8 hours ago
Principal Engineer
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expWells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the transformation of their development ecosystem through emerging GenAI capabilities. This role involves shaping strategy, defining architecture, and delivering enterprise-ready platform capabilities that enhance developer productivity and modernize software development practices.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTechInsurancePayments
No H1B
Responsibilities
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
Set the strategy and roadmap for GenAI adoption in SDLC, including governance, security, and metrics
Lead proof-of-concepts and scale successful patterns into production-ready platform capabilities
Architect and evolve the Enterprise Framework to enable agentic workflows, automation, and developer self-service
Establish integration patterns, guardrails, and standards for GenAI-enabled development tools and services
Partner with Architecture, Security, CIO organizations, vendors, and LOB engineering to drive adoption and alignment
Define and track KPIs/OKRs (e.g., cycle time, developer productivity, quality, ROI) to demonstrate business impact
Provide senior-level technical leadership, coaching, and technical product ownership for key platform capabilities
Lead resolution of complex cross-functional challenges affecting multiple product areas and thousands of applications
Qualification
Required
7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
7+ years Full stack design and development experience with Java, C# and TypeScript
5+ years leading architecture or platform engineering initiatives with cross-organizational scope
2+ years of demonstrated experience with AI/GenAI technologies, ML-assisted development, or agentic/automation platforms
Expertise in modern SDLC practices (DevOps, CI/CD, testing, observability, inner-source, platform engineering)
Excellent communication skills with a record of executive-level storytelling and decision facilitation
Preferred
Experience with one or more Cloud technologies - OCP, Azure, GCP, AWS
Experience with Low code platform development
Experience building developer platforms or frameworks that serve large, federated engineering organizations
Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native architectures, containerization, and infrastructure as code
Background in designing metrics frameworks and experimentation loops to measure productivity and quality
Track record of introducing automation-first, guardrail-based engineering practices at enterprise scale
Prior experience collaborating with vendors on tool evaluation, contracts, integration, and productionization
Demonstrated ability to mentor principal-level and senior engineers and build high-performing teams
Company
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a financial services firm that provides banking, insurance, investments, and mortgage services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1978-10-06IPO
Leadership Team
Charlie Scharf
CEO
Fernando Rivas
CEO of Corporate & Investment Banking
Recent News
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