About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Architect to serve as a senior technical leader driving the vision, strategy, and execution of our Enterprise Reconciliation Platform within COO Technology.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of business operations, financial controls, and modern engineering, where you will shape the future of how reconciliation is delivered across the enterprise.

As a Principal Architect, you will define and advance the target state architecture for the Reconciliation Utility Product, transforming fragmented, siloed processes into a scalable, unified, and product-driven platform.

You will act as a strategic bridge between Finance, Operations, Risk, and Engineering, ensuring alignment between business outcomes and technical execution while upholding architectural integrity, resiliency, and scalability across a federated ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

• Own the architecture strategy for enterprise reconciliation, establishing a modern utility model with modular, reusable capabilities
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, defining and advancing the architectural vision, framework, and delivery for highly complex business and technical challenges across the enterprise
• Lead the development of current state, target state, and transition architecture for the Reconciliation Utility Product across business, data, application, and technology domains
• Drive resolution of complex, cross-domain challenges, delivering long-term, scalable solutions that require innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and enterprise-wide coordination
• Establish enterprise data and integration patterns, including event-driven and stream-first architectures for reconciliation across core banking systems, payment rails, and external data sources
• Lead application rationalization and capability convergence across reconciliation tools and vendor platforms, optimizing total cost of ownership and return on investment
• Define and govern canonical data models, UDM alignment, and end-to-end data lineage, traceability, and control frameworks
• Embed AI/GenAI capabilities into reconciliation workflows, including automated matching, exception classification, and intelligent decision support
• Influence strategic and investment planning, including build vs. buy decisions, vendor strategy, architecture frameworks, and execution roadmaps aligned to target state
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, microservices-based, and API-first architectures, ensuring scalable, resilient, high-performance solutions and enforcing non-functional requirements
• Provide architecture governance through design reviews, risk assessments, and compliance alignment, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards, audit, and regulatory requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 5+ years of expertise in data architecture, integration patterns, and high-volume transaction processing systems within complex, regulated environments (e.g., financial services, operations platforms)
• 5+ years of experience designing cloud-native, event-driven architectures (microservices, APIs, streaming) with the ability to define scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned to enterprise standards
• 2+ years of AI/ML and GenAI integration, including applying intelligent automation to operational workflows (e.g., matching, anomaly detection, classification)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services domain, particularly reconciliation, payments, transaction processing, or operations platforms
• Deep expertise in event streaming technologies and real-time data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka or equivalent)
• Experience building or supporting product-based operating models, with alignment to shared backlogs, domain ownership, and cross-functional delivery
• Proven ability to lead large-scale data and platform transformations, including data model standardization and enterprise integration strategy
• Familiarity with enterprise data management practices, including UDM, data lineage, governance, and control frameworks
• Experience working with vendor platforms and build vs. buy evaluations, influencing long-term platform and ecosystem strategy
• Knowledge of regulatory, audit, and control expectations in reconciliation or financial operations environments
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and cross-functional leaders in complex, federated organizations
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and modeling approaches (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate)

Job Expectations:

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

Job Posting Locations:

401 Las Colinas Blvd W Bldg A, Irving, Texas 75039

300 S Brevard St., CHARLOTTE, North Carolina 28202

Posting End Date:

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