Principal Engineer

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Investment Solutions team within Wealth & Investment Management Technology (WIMT). The ideal candidate is a proactive and driven engineer with strong development fundamentals, a passion for innovation, and a track record of delivering results. You will have the opportunity to leverage AI-assisted development tools, solve complex business challenges, and continuously grow your skills and influence while helping shape the future of our platforms.

In This Role

• 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
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor 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

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 experience in Spring Boot (Java ecosystem) or ASP.NET Core (.Net)
• 5+ years experience in React or Angular
• 3+ years experience providing vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• 1+ year experience with MongoDB or other No SQL database
• 1 year experience with AI Assisted Development (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Devin, Claude, etc)

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence technical decisions
• Strong collaboration skills with product owners, architects, developers, QA teams, and business stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively in geographically distributed and cross-functional Agile teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a focus on identifying scalable solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and engineering practices
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and commitment to delivering high-quality results
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to reliability, stability, security, and operational excellence