Wells Fargo Principal Engineer 

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 

972474985

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

Responsibilities

• Strategic Vision & Application Roadmaps

  • Translate the business vision and goals to target state application roadmaps with clear options for any tactical versus strategic trade-offs

  • Develop and maintain 3–5-year application target state roadmaps aligned to the firmwide, business, and technology initiatives

  • Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans

• Architecture Principles and Standards

  • Develop technical standards, guidelines, and reference architectures based on industry trends and best practices including microservices and cloud deployments

  • Documenting architectural standards, best practices, and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient, and responsive applications

• Architecture Diagrams & Documentation

  • Author and maintain application use case, sequence, system context, and topology diagrams

  • Document integration patterns and options

  • Document Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery capabilities for applications

• Solution Designs

  • Facilitate buy versus build decisions and options

  • Assist development teams to produce cloud migration strategies in alignment with the overall strategy and priorities established by senior Architecture leadership

  • Design solutions that are fit for purpose, scalable and evolvable

  • Translates business requirements into well-architected recommendations supporting working foundational platform components thus ensuring functional and non-functional aspects are met

  • Promote Loosely coupled, event-driven architectures working within an agile team

  • Evaluating any project constraints and devising alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering

  • Conducting regular evaluations of the system architecture and collaborating with project management teams to improve the designs

  • Performing continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives and to improve the existing architectures

  • Work with engineers to Build, test, and present proofs of concept to demonstrate software architectures and patterns as well as help prove out the best options

  • Define technology stacks that is appropriate to the project requirements and constraints

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 5+ year’s experience with J2EE architectures

• 5+ year’s experience Strong understanding of Service-Oriented and microservices architectures

• 5+ year’s experience with SQL

Desired Qualifications:

• 4-year BS degree in Computer Science or related field

• Experience in provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running in the cloud

• Must be able to work on multiple projects and consistently meet project deadlines

• Interpersonal and communication skills, able to build rapport and communicate effectively at all levels and across disciplines

• Detail-oriented, strong work ethic and high standard of excellence

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Recent experience in a collaborative Agile working environment (Scrum preferred)

300 S Brevard Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

150 E 42nd St. - New York, NY 10017
Metro Park, 194 Wood Avenue South, Iselin, New Jersey 08830

Pay Range

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

16 Mar 2025

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.