Principal Engineer - Devops

Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer. In this role, you will:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
5. Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
6. 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 expertise in Java tech stack (Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, concurrency, performance tuning) and Python
• Proven experience designing large-scale distributed systems in production
• 1–2 years of experience delivering GenAI systems, including hands-on work with:
• Applications powered by LLMs
• RAG architectures
• Embeddings and vector databases
• Agent frameworks and orchestration
• Experience integrating AI services into enterprise backend platforms
• Strong cloud-native experience (GCP, Azure)
• Ability to influence architectural decisions across complex systems
• Experience in Banking/Financial Services domains, experience implementing AI governance, risk, and model validation frameworks
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Experience modernizing legacy Java systems with AI augmentation
• Excellent communication skills with experience engaging senior stakeholders
• Deployment of GenAI services embedded into core Java-based banking platforms
• Strong alignment between AI capabilities and retail banking product strategy
• Production-grade GenAI applications integrated into Java-based enterprise platforms
• RAG pipelines, agent orchestration layers, and AI service abstractions callable from core Java systems
• Observability, resilience, and governance frameworks for AI-enabled services
• Design and implement high-performance distributed systems primarily in Java (Spring Boot, microservices architecture), ReactJS and MicroFrontends
• Integrate LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI orchestration frameworks into enterprise Java systems
• Lead deep technical design reviews across backend, API, and AI integration layers
• Partner with Product and Business leaders to shape AI-enabled banking capabilities
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering rigor across the organization
• You will solve hard engineering problems inside regulated, mission-critical environments
• You will influence AI platform direction at scale and build durable systems — not prototypes​.