Hybrid Principal Engineer – AI & Systems Intelligence

at Wells Fargo

• Job title: Principal Engineer – AI & Systems Intelligence
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $159,000 - $305,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Gradle, Java, Jenkins, Maven, Microservices, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle, Python, RDBMS, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Iselin, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer developing microservices using domain driven design, event driven architecture for Wells Fargo. Lead technical architecture decisions, mentoring teams and providing expert advice across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for participating in the creation and implementation of a technology framework and providing strong technical expertise to application development teams and senior technology management
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
• Knowledge and experience applying key technology advancements such as Cloud & Big Data, Graph Technology, and/or AI/Machine Learning
• Be responsible for being a technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader for technology engineering discipline such as applications, micro-services, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies
• 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
• Develop standards and best practices for engineering complex, large-scale technology solutions to address highly complex and typically cross-organizational issues in the Architecture and Transformation area, while maintaining broad knowledge of other technology engineering disciplines and partnering with other key experts.
• Provide expert counsel to senior technology leadership and advises and mentors others with the goal of knowledge transfer.
• Be the escalation point for teams facing extremely complex technical challenges
• Provide executive level updates for complex platform solutions
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
• Lead team technically, provide coaching and development, drive architecture/design reviews focused on business requirements

Requirements

• 7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of Core Java experience with Java open-source stack & frameworks, Spring, Spring boot
• 3+ years of experience working with NoSQL Database such as MongoDB and RDBMS as well with databases such as SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL
• 3+ years of microservices development, domain driven design and API’s design
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud technologies, enterprise pipelines based on Gradle, Maven and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Harness, Github, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in Python and building back-end services/APIs.
• 1+ years of experience with at least one: LangChain / LangGraph, Llamalndex or equivalent frameworks.
• 1+ years of experience in building AI / Agentic AI application

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