Principal Engineer (payments Investigations)

Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer to play a pivotal role in advancing our Payment Operations technology landscape. This role is an opportunity to shape mission-critical systems that support Wires Operations and Payment Investigations, a cornerstone of our global payments infrastructure. From ACH (Automated Clearing House) and Instant Payments to Lockbox and ISO 20022 (International Organization for Standardization) modernization, our Payment Services Operations are at the forefront of innovation and transformation. As part of this team, you'll collaborate with top-tier engineers, risk and compliance experts, and business leaders to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions that impact millions of transactions daily. This leader will be part of a technology led transformation to automate thousands of manual test scripts to reduce testing timelines. Additionally, this pro-active associate will drive the modernization, consolidation, and automation of the Payments Investigations platform to increase productivity for our Operations partners. If you're passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and making a tangible impact in financial services, this is the role for you.

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
• 5+ years of Agile methodology experience and working closely with product partners
• 1+ year of Payments Industry experience
• 1+ year of experience with workflow engines utilized for Payment Investigations (ex; Pega Smart Investigate, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW), Finastra, Temenos Payments, FIS Payment Hub / FIS Compliance Suite, Appian, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• 3+ years' experience with Business Process Management / workflow technologies
• 5+ years of Java development
• 5+ years of RDBMS/NoSQL Development
• 1+ Years of Pega Smart Investigate experience
• Pega Certification - LSA - Lead System Architect, Part 2
• 7+ years' experience working with CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery) / EPL (Enterprise Pipe Line)
• 5+ years of Wires / ACH or other payments specific experience.
• 5+ years experience with Test Automation and Performance Benchmarking tooling
• 3+ years experience with Springboot or equivalent framework

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

Posting End Date: 1 May 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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