Principal Engineer

Location: CHARLOTTE, NC, ISELIN, NJ

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in technology as part of the Wealth & Investment Management Technology team. This individual will lead architecture, engineering, and modernization efforts across the Account Opening & Maintenance (AOM) Portfolio. This role is responsible for driving technology strategy, architecture, and engineering execution for a portfolio of critical applications supporting client onboarding, account opening, account maintenance, KYC/CDD compliance, client servicing, workflow automation, and digital integration experiences.

The Principal Engineer will provides strategic vision, technical direction, and architectural oversight for the Account Opening & Maintenance portfolio across Wealth and Investment Management. The individual will partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to modernize critical platforms through cloud-native architectures, API and event-driven solutions, AI/GenAI innovation, and automation. They will drive scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that support onboarding, compliance, servicing, and advisor experiences while establishing engineering standards, best practices, and modernization roadmaps. Additionally, this role will mentor technical teams, lead complex integrations and production issue resolution, and champion engineering excellence through DevSecOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices.

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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
• 3+ Years of Java experience
• 3+ years of React experience
• 5+ years of experience with cloud-native architectures, container platforms, Kubernetes, OpenShift
• 5+ years of experience in database design and data architecture, including relational and NoSQL technologies
• 3+ years of experience leading CI/CD, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, and release engineering initiatives
• 2+ years of experience implementing Generative AI, AI-powered automation, Agentic AI, or intelligent workflow solutions within enterprise environments

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with software delivery automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Playwright, or equivalent technologies
• 3+ years of experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka, MQ, or similar technologies
• Experience with document intelligence, OCR, intelligent document processing, and workflow automation

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Position offers a hybrid work schedule

Posting Locations:

• 300 S Brevard St.- Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
• 194 Wood Ave S.- Iselin, New Jersey 08830

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Posting End Date:

30 Aug 2026

*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 unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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.