Principal Engineer – Java, Python & Data Platforms

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking aPrincipal Engineer to join the Control Monitor technology team within Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB). CIB delivers capital markets, banking, and financial products and services to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients across the globe

In this highly influential technical role, you will help shape the architecture and evolution of a critical supervisory platform supporting regulatory compliance, risk management, and key supervisory workflows. You will drive technical strategy across data ingestion, metadata management, search, audit capabilities, and integrations with upstream Systems of Record, while advancing platform scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency

This is an opportunity to provide senior technical leadership on complex engineering challenges, influence standards and architectural decisions across teams, and help build sustainable solutions that strengthen data reliability, traceability, completeness, and audit readiness

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In 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

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 hands-on software engineering experience across Oracle, SQL Server, Python, Java/Spring
• 5+ years of DevOps experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Gradle, Jenkins, uDeploy, and/or Harness
• 5+ years of software testing experience, including JUnit and automated testing practices
• 5+ years of experience working within Agile software development lifecycle environments

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise architecting scalable, resilient, maintainable, and production-ready enterprise applications
• Experience designing RESTful APIs, enterprise integrations, batch processing, and distributed application solutions
• Experience defining observability, logging, monitoring, exception handling, and production support strategies
• Experience designing integrations that support data reliability, metadata delivery, traceability, and completeness
• Experience with ETL processes, tools, and data integration workflows
• Experience with AutoSys or similar enterprise workload scheduling technologies
• Demonstrated success modernizing applications, reducing technical debt, and improving scalability, resiliency, and maintainability
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools across the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, quality, or delivery
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including leading complex architecture decisions, evaluating technical tradeoffs, mentoring engineers, and influencing engineering standards across teams
• Ability to translate complex business, risk, and regulatory needs into sustainable technical solutions

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

Posting Locations:

• 300 S Brevard St.- Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

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 Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs 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:

29 Nov 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.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

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