Principal Engineer - Gen AI

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer who will bring the highest technical thought leadership to the organization. In this role, this leader will be accountable for assisting delivery leaders in Architecture & Engineering group by developing a vision that helps realize Customer First Experience through modern design & technologies. He/she will collaborate with key partners, Leads and team members across regions to take complete ownership and accountability till execution of vision including Product Strategy & Delivery, Architecture, and Platform in articulating current and future state.

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

Desired Qualifications:

• University degree in Business or related discipline with 7 + years of experience.
• Technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader within a specified technology engineering discipline such as applications, services, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies.
• Experience in leading large scale Digital transformation initiatives
• Must have Experience in developing application in Cloud native technologies Microservices, Spring boot
• Experience in Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies and tooling
• Experience in Designing and Architecting Enterprise Grade applications including development of common components and frameworks
• Experience in designing Low latency, High throughput applications specifically around NFR patterns and frameworks
• Must have Experience in developing applications using Event driven architecture using KEES (Kafka Enterprise Event Streaming) , Streaming using Flink
• Rich experience working in Agile environment
• Hands on experience adopting and implementing engineering practices such as TDD, BDD, Developer lead functional automation, Automated deployment
• Experience in recommending changes to application architecture with knowledge in infrastructure aspects and good ability to articulate to stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures and have very good understanding of microservices and should have prior experience in developing the cloud native apps
• Implementing best practices from inception of SDLC like GIT branching Strategy, Code Reviews, Test Driven developments
• Hands-on experience in Java or any similar JVM languages, Eager to solve the problem by quickly implementing the PoC
• Working knowledge on RDBMS, NoSQL like MongoDB, HADOOP and ELK stack
• Sound understanding of architecting middleware applications including API driven architecture
• Sound knowledge on Event Driven programming and messaging broker like MQ, KAFKA
• Good understanding of security best practices in implementing the public facing external applications (Fortify Scan, SonarQube, Black duck scan)
• Core understanding of BFSI and services domain is must
• Should have working knowledge on one of cloud platforms like PCF, AWS, Azure or GCP, Openshift container platform

Job Expectations:

• Translates 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.
• Acts as an expert resource for architects in the development of target architectures. Maintains knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
• Develop standards and best practices and for engineering complex, largescale technology solutions to address highly complex and typically cross-organizational issues, while maintaining broad knowledge of other technology engineering disciplines and partnering with other key experts.
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
• May represent Wells Fargo to external industry groups, influencing industry standards. Provides expert counsel to senior technology leadership and advises and mentors others with the goal of knowledge transfer.
• Wear the hat of architecture of all of Journey Enablement products and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly
• Appetite to solve the scalability and Performance issues and should have strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong influential skills in vetting design with our partners and articulate the same in precise and concise way