This role is in the office three days a week and a hybrid position.
There is no visa sponsorships or visa transfer for this role.
At Wells Fargo, we're investing in senior engineering leadership to help shape and advance enterprise-scale platforms that underpin critical business capabilities. As a Principal Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of architecture, engineering excellence, and cross-functional influence-bringing clarity to complex, systemic challenges and driving solutions that strengthen performance, scalability, and resilience across the technology landscape. This role is designed for a seasoned technologist who can think holistically, engage credibly with senior leaders, and champion strategies that elevate engineering outcomes across the enterprise.
The Principal Engineer will assist in the modernization of our Identity & Access Management (IAM) data platforms and applications. You'll define the technical strategy and architecture, guide design and standards, and partner with product, data, security, and platform teams to deliver a high-availability, zero-trust-aligned IAM platform that powers enterprise-scale identity analytics, access intelligence, and controls automation.
Apply now if you're excited about building modern data platforms from the ground up, driving transformation, and influencing the technical direction of a major initiative.
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:- Deep expertise in cloud platforms (GCP preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and DevOps tooling
- Deep understanding of data engineering, integration, and governance principles
- Proven track record of leading large-scale migrations from on-prem to cloud-native architectures
- Expertise in application modernization patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures)
- Familiarity with data migration strategies, including database modernization and ETL processes.
- Experience with modern architectures (microservices, data lakehouses) and distributed systems
- Experience designing identity analytics, risk scoring, or access intelligence at enterprise scale
- Hands-on with Dataplex, Data Catalog, Vertex AI feature stores or model governance in a regulated environment
- Background in observability and SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, incident response)
- Familiarity with BeyondCorp/zero trust, Privileged Access Management (PAM), and secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, GCP Secret Manager)
- Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid identity systems and directory services
- Certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect (or Data Engineer/Security Engineer), CISSP, CCSP, CISM
Job Expectations:- Demonstrate proficiency in using AI-assisted development and analysis tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and approved code-centric agents)
- Leverage AI to accelerate system design, coding, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting
- Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AI-assisted outputs into solutions
- Understand and account for model limitations, security risks, and operational considerations
- Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments
- Ensure AI usage aligns with security, compliance, privacy, and ethical standards
Pay RangeReflected 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 - $254,000.00
Benefits Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:19 Jun 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
