Principal Engineer (PE)

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer.
 

In this role, you will:

• Provide Technical Leadership

• BPPA
  • Work with Enterprise Architects to develop L2 Arch Specs
  • Subsequently work with L1 Scrum teams for detailed low-level designs (LLD).
  • LLDs are primarily created by LSE, Product Engineers (PE) are responsible for reviewing the design. 
  • Finally validate LLD with stakeholders 
• Ensure adherence to Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) by meticulously integrating performance, security, and scalability considerations into the design and implementation of software solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operational efficiency or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
• Maintains a deep specialty in emerging areas like speed of light computing, AI, ML, NLP, and Quantum Computing OR maintains an expert-level, broad level of experience in all aspects of engineering.
• Maintains knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization. 
• Act as a technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader in Cloud, Automation, and specifically, the technologies within your domain. 
• Get in-depth understanding, monitor, and mentor the devops (CICD, versioning monitoring etc)
• Dive deep into your domain and understand technologies in depth also, have good understanding of other trending technologies.
• Identifies research opportunities, delivers solutions, and makes original contributions in their domain of expertise.
• Drive multi-year strategic initiatives and ensure existing system is maintained with highest quality. 
• Identify process gaps and implement improvements, such as in Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, and Performance Testing. Additionally, advocate for the adoption of modern engineering practices.
• Conduct research and Proof of Concept (POC) activities for strategic tools and technologies.
• Offering expert guidance to engineers, serving as a torchbearer for the team, learning new tools and technologies, delivering tech talks, and fostering a culture of encouragement for others.
• Lead complex technology Cloud initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.
• Closely work with the Product Team and Vendors to develop and deploy Software Service or Cloud services to meet customer expectations.
• Conduct code reviews, identify areas for improvement, and enforce coding standards to ensure the highest level of software craftsmanship.
• Develop detailed understanding of business strategy, the customer base, products and services and other relevant industry issues, frameworks and emerging risks.
• Go beyond “That’s not my job”. Think big for the entire company and not just for the team. 

Engineering Leadership

• Represent Wells Fargo to external industry groups, influencing industry standards. For ex: Speaker at Gartner, GIDS and write blogs
• Publish Whitepapers, organize WFIP & global events like Hackathon
• Guide and mentor a team of skilled engineers, cultivating a culture that emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Mentor campus graduates. As we have been hiring from campuses for the past few years, in a few more years, they will make a substantial contribution across the roles of Software Engineers (SEs) and Senior Software Engineers (SSEs).
• Ability to influence and build relationships with LOB stakeholders, technology CIO leadership, external service providers, and architecture teams to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
  Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
• Don’t limit yourself to your team or sub-lob. Find out opportunities, build networks and have visibility not only in WFIP but globally. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in engineering or equivalent and must have 16+ Years of overall experience
• Cloud and Kubernetes certified with Hands-on knowledge of Google/Azure Cloud and OpenShift
• Hands-on experience in Docker Container, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Devops, Networking, Microservices, APIs
• Working experience in designing, architecting applications for deployment into one or more Containerize env (like OCP) / cloud (GCP, Azure) environments and the ability to build solutions leveraging Devops, OCP, Kubernetes, TKGI, Kafka, Microservices, APIs
• Understanding of tools and technologies like Virtual Machines, NAS, Networking, Hadoop, Teradata, Hive, Oracle, Mongo DB, SQL server, Autosys, Kafka
• Strong hands-on experience of working with and buildout of transformational agile teams for enterprise scale application development.
• Ability to motivate staff to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Should possess Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively across organizational lines and with virtual team members.
• Provide effort estimates, identify resource needs, and enforce project and delivery standards.
• Strong demonstrated people development skills to hire, coach, develop, and mentor team members. 
• Ability to deal with ambiguities effectively (Technology, People, Process or Partner).

Desired Qualifications

• CI/CD and Automation: Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Gitlab, SonarQube, Artifactory, Ansible
• Monitoring: AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK
• Distributed technologies: Kafka, Cassandra etc
• OS and Platform – OCP, PCF, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, VMware
• Agile methodology using Kanban and Scrum. 

Posting End Date: 

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

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.