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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the modernization of the bank's core banking transaction processing platform. This roleis responsible fordelivering aresilient, scalable, secure, and compliant foundationthat supports highthroughput account and transaction processing capabilities.

The Principal Engineer will act as atechnical authority across multiple products and platforms, driving architecture, solution design, and engineering best practices. This role requires close collaboration with product, architecture, and production engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes acrossavailability, performance, risk, and cost efficiency, while enabling transformation from legacy systems to modern, cloudnative platforms.

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:

  • Technology oriented B.E/B Tech Degree or equivalent advanced degree
  • 7+years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a principal or staff engineer role.
  • Proven experience in modernizing heritage systems into microservices, java, spring boot and event-drivenarchitectures.
  • Exposure to Cloud and its service offerings, including automation, orchestration,trendsand industry-leading cloud vendor offerings.
  • Experience in database migration and transformation, from relational to NoSQL and/or polyglot persistence.
  • Solid grounding in resilience engineering concepts and experience in SRE practices.
  • Experience working in highly regulated environments like financial services is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Hands-on knowledge of AI/ML tools, GenAI coding assistants (Copilot,Devin, etc.), and automation platforms.
  • Domain Functional Knowledge - Banking, Financial Services, Payments
  • Experience with Agile, CI/CD, DevOpsconceptsand SRE principles.
  • Experience in setting up and using Observability/Monitoring tools: Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, Kafka, Big Panda, Splunk
  • Experiencewith one or more CI/CD Pipeline (GitHub, Jenkins), Releasemanagementand Automation tools: Gradle, Maven, Git


Job Expectations:

  • Curiosity to learnnew technologies, an ability to self-start and the discipline to prioritize while multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment
  • Has skills to conduct various performance tests for e.g., Load, spike, breakpoint, enduranceetcto understand application/ service limits.
  • Ability to deliver & engage witharchitectseffectively inaTechdemands and modernizationsbydemonstratingstrongownership & accountability.
  • Deliveryfocusand willingness to work in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.

Posting End Date:

15 Jun 2026

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.

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Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our 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.

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"Wells Fargo is committed to building an inclusive, sustainable recovery for all through a focus on opening pathways to economic advancement, championing quality, affordable homes, empowering small businesses to thrive, and enabling a just, low-carbon economy.
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Job ID: 148877369

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