Principal Engineer - CAO Technology

About This Role

The COO Technology group delivers technology solutions for the Chief Operating Office, supporting operations, control executives, strategic execution, business continuity, resiliency, data services, regulatory relations, customer experience, enterprise shared services, supply chain management, and corporate properties. Our mission is to modernize and optimize technology platforms for these critical functions. Within COO Technology we are seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Supply Chain & Corporate Security Technology (SSR) team. The SSR team supports Supply Chain Management, Corporate Security, Enterprise Resiliency and CAO Data and Analytics business functions under the Chief Administrative Office. This role will drive creation and adoption of various roadmaps across multiple programs in this organization. The team will drive technology transformation and adoption of AI, Cloud and on-premise solutions integrating with enterprise platforms.

Within 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
Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
Architect and deploy solutions on-premise and on Google Cloud (GCP), ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
Deliver solutions by leveraging Agentic AI frameworks for the Chief Operating Office (TCOO)
Help drive adoption of enterprise capabilities, tools, and innovation improving availability in a multi-cloud ecosystem by evolving observability, monitoring, logging, synthetic monitoring and chaos engineering
Translate AI engineering knowledge and business requirements into technical engineering solutions
Leverage expertise to implement innovative and significant business solutions

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 of experience with solution architecture and application design
• 7+ years of financial services industry experience
• 7+ years of Java and/or Python experience
• 4+ years of experience with cloud computing including migration & deployment
• 4+ years of data warehouse experience
• 3+ years of UI (User Interface) experience
• 3+ years of workflow experience

Desired Qualifications

• 3+ years of Financial Industry experience
• Experience working with Python and Python frameworks
• Experience working with LLM models and prompt engineering
• Experience with enterprise data platforms such as Teradata, MapR and Hortonworks
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Experience with AWS or GCP
• Experience with building enterprise applications using Java, Workflow technologies like JBPM, Business Intelligence tools (Tableau, PowerBI)
• 5+ years demonstrated ability to successfully navigate and operate across multiple level of the organization
• Experience collaborating with key resources and stakeholders, influencing decisions, and managing work to achieve strategic goals
• Executive level business acumen in technology/industry best practices and emerging trends
• Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, drive for results, attention to quality and detail, and a synergetic attitude
• Excellent communications, interpersonal, and presentations skills utilizing PowerPoint across technical and non-technical groups
• Bachelor's degree and Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Job Expectations

• Ability to work onsite 3 days/week at one of posted locations

Pay Range

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Benefits

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

24 Jul 2026

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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