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Wells Fargo Senior Lead Architect/Developer Principle Engineer 
United States, New York, New York 
110811853

03.04.2025

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

  • 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

  • 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

    • 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

    • 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

  • Automation

    • Ensure high-quality software delivery through effective automation strategies

    • Develop and enhance the tools/techniques needed for a smooth business workflows

  • Mentoring

    • Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across all teams

Required Qualifications:

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

  • 7+ years’ experience architecture and design skills

  • 4+ years experience with Cloud technologies

  • 7+ years Java Technologies

  • 2+ years in Web Servers (like Apache Tomcat, IIS, nginx)

  • 2+ years in distributed caches such as Redis & Ignite

  • 2+ years in Databases, both SQL and NoSQL such as Oracle and Mongo

  • 2+ years in Event driven Messaging Frameworks using Solace or Apache Kafka

Desired Qualifications:

  • Strong communication skills, including ability to drive outcomes with business and tech partners

  • Ability to lead – work with the business partners and the dev team to deliver the agreed outcomes

  • Ability to look for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.

  • Experience building supervisory controls tools

  • 1+ years experience in post-trade processing

  • 1+ years experience with workflows, rules engines, REST API

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

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit 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

6 Apr 2025


Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

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