Wells Fargo Principal Network Architect 

United States, Texas, San Antonio 

784137103

About this role:

In this role, you will:

• Acts as a subject matter expert to the organization for network infrastructure architecture.
• 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.
• Development and Maintenance of architecture solutions such as reference architecture, white paper, product strategy, product to services roadmap.
• Advocate and define architectural vision for Wells Fargo's network environment.
• Design, configure and implement fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining network services on-premises using infrastructure as a code solution integrated with common control planes.
• Provides leadership and mentoring to Architects and engineers to grow architecture talent.
• Lead strategic planning and architectural planning for infrastructure technologies.

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 network engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 7+ years of network infrastructure architecture experience in data center design and modernizing technology infrastructure landscape
• 3+ years of experience researching new technologies, performing proof-of-concepts, and recommending solutions.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven track record in enabling developer tooling and capabilities to advance developer portals, CI/CD orchestration, QTE frameworks and application integration.
• Demonstrable experience in Data Center migration and related tooling.
• Well versed in modern networking constructs such as data center spine/leaf, network segmentation (macro and micro), zero trust, carrier neutral facilities and colo, internet, b2b, vpn, cloud proxy, next generation firewall, content delivery network, global backbone, sd-wan, ipv4, ipv6, ntp and branch wi-fi.
• Demonstrable experience in Data Center migration and related tooling.
• Networking specific certifications, e.g. Arista, Cisco, F5.
• Hands on knowledge to with Arista, Cisco spine leaf to include fabric overlay protocol such as vxlan.
• Hands on knowledge with AVI load balancing, Infoblox IPAM and Illumio Micro segmentation.
• Familiar and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code via CI/CD and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Packer.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience working in an agile, product-oriented structure.
• Ability to interact with all levels with the organization.
• Strong comprehension within the network, compute and storage domains.

Job Expectations:

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