Principal Engineer

About this role:

The Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT) group provides technology solutions and support for Risk, Audit, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate Properties, and Stakeholder Relations business lines. In addition, EFT provides unique technology solutions and innovation for Wells Fargo Technology, Enterprise Shared Services, and Enterprise Data Management. This combined portfolio of applications and tools are continually engineered to meet the challenges of stability, security, scalability, and speed.

Within EFT we are seeking a Principal Engineer within Workplace Technology. This individual contributor is role responsible for driving the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that enable a seamless, one-stop experience for diverse internal customer needs. The role partners cross-functionally with Engineering Leads, Product Managers, other Technology teams, and business stakeholders to influence technical direction and ensure consistency in how we build, test, secure, and deploy at scale.

The Principal Engineer L3 serves as a hands-on architect and trusted advisor, applying system-thinking, technical depth, and cross-domain expertise to solve complex problems, anticipate risks, and advance modern engineering practices across the enterprise.

In this role, you will:

• Architecture and Design
  • Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure platforms to support heterogeneous business and partner needs
  • Decompose complex problems into actionable, practical designs and operational solutions
  • Serve as subject matter expert on performance, scalability, operability, and other non-functional requirements
  • Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to embed monitoring, alerting, and automation into platforms
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to align technical solutions with business priorities
  • Represent engineering in strategic forums, architecture boards, and enterprise design reviews
  • Anticipate risks, trends, and opportunities, advising stakeholders on trade-offs and long-term implications
• Technical Excellence
  • Promote secure-by-default engineering, automation, modular design, and observability as standard practices
  • Ensure adherence to modern delivery practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, and infrastructure as code
  • Stay current with emerging tools and technologies (including GenAI) and integrate them where appropriate
  • Mentor and guide engineers across teams, strengthening technical capability and decision-making
• Execution and Delivery
  • Balance multiple concurrent projects, prioritizing for maximum business impact
  • Support delivery sequencing to ensure incremental value and measurable outcomes
  • Collaborate across functions to reconcile ambiguous or unprecedented situations with innovative solutions

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 experience in large-scale platform engineering and software delivery transformation
• 6+ years of experience with software engineering and architecture experience, including enterprise design patterns and full SDLC delivery
• 5+ years of experience within the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem
• 3+ years of experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines
• 5+ years of experience in cloud-native architecture, DevOps, infrastructure as code, and observability

Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders
• Experience applying GenAI tooling to software development workflows
• Familiarity with platform engineering and internal developer portals
• Experience with legacy modernization
• Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud design expertise with strong automation and DevSecOps practices
• Experience in regulated industries or enterprise-wide transformation initiatives
• Builder’s mindset with a passion for coaching engineers and high-performance teams
• Experience as a lead or senior software engineer a cloud-first enterprise
• Experience engaging with senior executives and external vendors to drive strategic outcomes
• Experience with Copilot
• Hands-on experience with Azure AD, Microsoft 365 Search, including Microsoft Graph API and search schema customization, and SharePoint -and OneDrive architecture, sync client troubleshooting, and compliance integration
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries
• Microsoft Dynamics or Power Platform certifications
• Experience working with business teams to gather business requirements to create solutions
• Experience in Agile, Scrum and Jira
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a large enterprise environment including ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks along with work efforts simultaneously
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important
• Ability to determine the most efficient and effective solution to address the problem at hand and use of a wide variety of business tools to meet user needs
• Problem-solving, recommendation formulation, execution orientation, strong analytics capabilities, continuous improvement and risk management skills
• Ability to take initiative, work independently with strong planning, prioritization, and follow-up skills in a structured environment with minimal supervision

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

Posting End Date:

29 Sep 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.

Applicants with Disabilities

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Drug and Alcohol Policy

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