Principal Engineer

About This Role

Lead the transformation of Wells Fargo's development ecosystem by identifying, evaluating, and operationalizing emerging GenAI capabilities. Drive the evolution of the Enterprise Framework for modernization, automation, and improved developer productivity.

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 across the enterprise, delivering long-term, large-scale solutions
• Translate advanced technology experience and organizational knowledge 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, recommending innovations
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise 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

Requirements

• 7+ years of Engineering experience
• 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

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or 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.

Nice to Have

• 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

Skills

* Required skills