Wells Fargo

Principal Engineer - Public Cloud Data

Wells Fargo$159K — $254K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent, in relevant fields
  • 7+ years designing enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms
  • 5+ years delivering AI/ML or Agentic AI solutions
  • Proven experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives
  • Deep expertise in public cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud
  • Strong familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and streaming solutions
  • Experience in highly regulated industries like financial services or healthcare.

Responsibilities

  • Define architecture for cloud-native data and AI platforms
  • Establish engineering standards across the enterprise
  • Drive modernization of legacy data platforms to cloud ecosystems
  • Lead evaluations and adoption of emerging cloud capabilities
  • Architect scalable data lakes and real-time analytics platforms
  • Enable self-service analytics capabilities across business lines
  • Establish standards for AI governance and responsible AI practices.

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life and critical illness insurance
  • Parental and caregiving leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement
Full Job Description

About this role:

  • The Principal Engineer for Public Cloud Data, Analytics & Agentic AI Platform is the senior-most technical leader responsible for defining and driving the strategic architecture, engineering standards, and innovation roadmap for enterprise-scale data, analytics, and Agentic AI capabilities on public cloud platforms.

  • This role serves as the technical authority for modern data platforms, AI-native architectures, and autonomous agent solutions that enable self-service analytics, intelligent automation, real-time decisioning, and enterprise-scale data products. The Principal Engineer partners with engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, product, and business leaders to accelerate cloud transformation while maintaining security, governance, resilience, and regulatory compliance.


In this role, you will:

  • Define the target-state architecture for cloud-native data, analytics, AI/ML, and Agentic AI platforms
  • Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technical governance across the enterprise
  • Drive modernization of legacy data platforms into scalable cloud-native ecosystems
  • Lead technology evaluations and strategic adoption of emerging public cloud capabilities
  • Architect and scale enterprise lakehouse, data mesh, streaming, and real-time analytics platforms
  • Define standards for data ingestion, transformation, governance, metadata management, lineage, and data quality
  • Enable self-service data products and analytics capabilities across business lines
  • Lead the development of Agentic AI solutions that automate engineering, operations, governance, and analytics workflows
  • Define enterprise frameworks for AI agents, orchestration, reasoning engines, MCP-based integrations, and human-in-the-loop controls
  • Architect AI-enabled automation for:
    • Data onboarding
    • Pipeline generation
    • Metadata enrichment
    • Policy enforcement
    • Data quality validation
    • Incident remediation
    • Operational intelligence
  • Establish standards for responsible AI, explainability, model governance, and auditability
  • Provide technical leadership across public cloud services including compute, storage, networking, security, AI, analytics, and DevOps ecosystems
  • Drive platform reliability, scalability, resiliency, observability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence
  • Partner with engineering teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), platform automation, and self-service capabilities
  • Establish SLOs, reliability metrics, and engineering KPIs
  • Partner with Cyber Security, IAM, Risk, Audit, and Regulatory Compliance teams
  • Ensure cloud platforms meet enterprise security, governance, privacy, and regulatory standards
  • Architect secure-by-design and compliance-by-design platform capabilities
  • Drive implementation of AI governance controls for enterprise-scale Agentic AI adoptio
  • Design high-performance, secure, and cost-efficient cloud data ecosystems supporting regulatory and business requirements


Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 7+ years designing enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms
  • 5+ years delivering AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions in complex enterprise environments
  • Proven experience leading enterprise-wide cloud transformation initiatives


Desired Qualifications:

  • Deep expertise in one or more public cloud platforms:
    • Google Cloud Platform (preferred)
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Amazon Web Services
  • Strong experience with:
    • Data Lakehouse architectures
    • BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Starburst, or equivalent platforms
    • Streaming and event-driven architectures
    • Data governance, metadata, lineage, and catalog solutions
    • Kubernetes and container platforms
    • Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation
  • AI & Agentic AI Expertise

  • Experience designing enterprise AI platforms and MLOps frameworks.
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Agentic AI architectures
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Vector databases
  • Model evaluation and monitoring
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystems
  • Experience implementing production-grade AI governance and controls
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI, or related field
  • Industry certifications in public cloud, data engineering, AI/ML, or security.
  • Experience in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or insurance
  • Contributions to industry standards, patents, open-source projects, or published technical thought leadership

Job Expectations:

  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
  • Telecommuting is not an option for this position
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule
  • Relocation assistance in not available for this position

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 - $254,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit 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:

8 Sep 2026

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

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