Principal Engineer (AI Engineering)

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer (AI Engineering Productivity & Enablement) within Technology as part of the COO (Chief Operating Office) Technology’s Engineering Productivity & AI Adoption organization. In this highly visible role you will lead the adoption and operational execution of AI‑powered engineering tools across the enterprise, helping technology teams increase productivity, accelerate software delivery, and realize measurable business value. You will partner with engineering leaders, technical champions, platform teams, and analytics partners to drive enablement, adoption strategy, performance insights, and continuous optimization across solutions such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Responsibilities

• 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 long‑term, large‑scale solutions that require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical thinking.
• Translate advanced technology experience and deep knowledge of the organization’s tactical and strategic objectives, enterprise environment, structure, and opportunities 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 emerging technologies, recommending innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage.
• Strategically engage with professionals and managers at all levels across the enterprise, serving as an expert advisor to leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience coordinating a large‑scale technology rollout across multiple business or technology organizations.
• Experience managing adoption operations, including user prioritization, onboarding, access readiness, usage monitoring, communications, and intervention routines.
• Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting adoption, utilization, delivery, and engineering productivity data.
• Ability to define dashboard requirements, validate data quality, analyze trends, and translate findings into leadership decisions.
• Working knowledge of AI‑assisted and autonomous engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable platforms.
• Understanding of software delivery workflows, repositories, pull requests, engineering metrics, and common adoption barriers.
• Experience collaborating with a distributed network of engineering leaders, champions, administrators, analysts, and vendor partners.
• Strong executive communication skills, including concise status reporting, decision framing, risk escalation, and actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to operate in a large, matrixed, regulated enterprise with established risk, security, access, and governance requirements.
• Experience with developer productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, or internal engineering productivity scorecards.
• Experience evaluating relationships between AI tool usage and delivery outcomes such as throughput, cycle time, quality, backlog reduction, and pull request completion.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, GitHub analytics, Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent reporting ecosystems.
• Experience operating a champion network, field enablement model, community of practice, or train‑the‑trainer program.
• Experience managing software licenses or technology entitlements based on utilization and business value.
• Familiarity with financial management, vendor oversight, pilot governance, or build‑versus‑buy decisions for engineering tools.
• Experience preparing executive‑level updates for CIO, COO, finance, engineering, or transformation leadership.
• Prior experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.

Pay

Base pay range: $159,000.00 – $305,000.00. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule with the ability to travel up to 25% of the time. This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life, critical illness, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings programs
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement