BENGALURU · FULLTIME
Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo
Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 27d ago
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About this role
About this role
Required Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
Job Expectations
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide enterprise-level technical leadership for the modernization and convergence of Governance, Risk Compliance (GRC), Testing Monitoring, and Audit platforms.
This role will drive the transformation of vendor-centric and legacy solutions into a unified ecosystem built on reusable digital experiences, shared services, common data capabilities, and AI-powered platforms. The Principal Engineer will define the technology strategy and architecture while remaining deeply engaged with engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges and deliver practical outcomes.
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
- Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Strong frontend architecture and development experience using React and TypeScript.
- Experience modernizing platforms built on commercial products such as Archer, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise systems.
- Proven experience building reusable platforms, common services, and shared engineering capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and orchestration frameworks.
- Experience building AI-enabled enterprise solutions using Python.
- Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, semantic search, graph databases, and ontology-based architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, DevSecOps, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Strong understanding of data governance, auditability, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational risk.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic architecture with hands-on engineering engagement.
- Strong communication, mentoring, and stakeholder influence skills.
- Lead architecture and engineering strategy across GRC, Testing Monitoring, and Audit modernization initiatives.
- Drive adoption of common technologies including React, Java-based microservices, shared data platforms, and Python-based AI services.
- Define reusable capabilities, integration patterns, data models, and platform services that can be leveraged across multiple domains.
- Ensure architectural alignment across major programs while enabling teams to deliver independently.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies including Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge Graphs, and intelligent automation.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape through consolidation, standardization, and platform reuse.
- Partner with business, risk, audit, compliance, security, and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant solutions.
- Serve as a hands-on technology leader through architecture reviews, design sessions, prototyping, code reviews, and complex problem resolution.
Job Expectations
- Shape the target-state architecture across GRC, Testing Monitoring, and Audit platforms.
- Establish a common technology stack centered on React, Java microservices, shared data capabilities, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Drive the development of reusable interfaces, common services, enterprise data capabilities, and an AI control plane for intelligent automation.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Maintain deep hands-on involvement with critical architecture, design, and engineering decisions.
- Challenge legacy approaches and promote modernization, simplification, automation, and reuse.
- Mentor engineers and architects while elevating engineering standards across the organization.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and convert promising innovations into practical business solutions.
- Operate as an enterprise Principal Engineer, focusing on platform strategy, architectural alignment, and measurable business outcomes.
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