Principal Engineer

About this role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer within the Digital Infrastructure Services organization to lead the design engineering and architecture of modern cloud-native infrastructure across hybrid public cloud and on-prem environments.

This role focuses on platform engineering Kubernetes/OpenShift cloud connectivity security automation and traffic management. You will drive highly scalable resilient and secure solutions that support application and infrastructure modernization and data center transformation.

In this role you will:

• Provide vision direction and expertise to leadership in implementing innovative and impactful business solutions
• Strategically engage with professionals and leaders across the enterprise serving as a trusted technical advisor
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts including reference architectures white papers product strategies and roadmaps
• Lead the architecture and engineering of cloud networking and connectivity including VPC design segmentation routing and hybrid connectivity
• Design and implement enterprise-grade traffic management solutions including AVI F5 Global Traffic Manager and Akamai security integrations
• Partner with engineering and product teams to support cloud migration and modernization programs ensuring secure and compliant connectivity patterns
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex cross-domain infrastructure issues influencing enterprise-wide solutions
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers establishing best practices standards and architectural patterns

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience training military experience or education
• 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms and architectures including containerization distributed systems and scalable deployment models
• 5 years of experience in database design and data architecture including relational and/or NoSQL systems data modeling and high-throughput data access patterns
• 5 years of experience in system design and architecture for high-scale applications including performance optimization fault tolerance and resiliency
• 3 years of experience with distributed streaming and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka Flink or similar real-time data processing frameworks
• 3 years of experience working with security data privacy and governance considerations especially in regulated enterprise environments
• 2 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade automation solutions using tools such as Ansible Harness CD GitHub Actions and Playwright

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting high-volume mission-critical applications serving millions of users daily
• Knowledge of API security OAuth authentication and authorization platforms and reverse proxy or gateway patterns
• Experience with conversational platforms chatbots or virtual assistants at enterprise scale
• Experience with API gateway and edge platforms such as ApigeeX Akamai or similar solutions
• Strong understanding of network compute and storage domains
• Cloud certifications in AWS GCP Azure or Generative AI
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure or platform engineering concepts including prompt engineering vector databases and orchestration tools
• Ability to operate effectively in highly matrixed organizations and influence without direct authority

What sets you apart:

• Ability to operate as a strategic technical advisor and influence architecture across multiple teams and domains
• Strong collaboration across platform application security and infrastructure teams
• Experience driving enterprise-scale transformation initiatives and establishing long-term architecture direction

Pay Range

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*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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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