Principal Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer in the Core Infrastructure Services (CIS) group, supporting cloud-native infrastructure, automation engineering, and scaling the "as code" and software-driven infrastructure engineering across the whole enterprise. These services are in support of the operability of all of Wells Fargo's digital products and services across the world.
This position is a technical leader and contributor for the Infrastucture Tooling Ecosystems functionality, requiring experience in software engineering, infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, data modeling, and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) development.
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Develop and implement company-wide best practices for engineering and technology solutions by leveraging industry standards and emerging technologies, while guiding the team to achieve deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team members, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, and serve as a peer mentor to engineers on the automation engineering teams
• Create applications and services that promote efficiency, high-scale reuse, and cost savings
• Knowledge of advanced workload identity federation authentication and authorization models at scale
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
• Play an individual contribution as well as a team leader role in delivering on the development of new features and functionality in integrating, implementing, and/or augmenting IBM Terraform Enterprise, Consul Enterprise, Vault Enterprise, and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) platforms
• Expand upon developed and delivered products through cross-training/knowledge transfer to other software engineers, creating thorough documentation/other learning materials, and providing example user-specific application examples to the greater development community
• Production software development experience in a modern programming language such as C#, Java, C++, Golang, Rust

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 Software Development experience with architecting, designing and developing frontend and backend applications using modern software programming languages
• 7+ years of experience in developing software which utilizes either traditional relational databases or alternately non-relational databases
• 5+ years of experience in developing microservices which utilize cloud web services

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of leadership experience
• 5+ years of experience working in an agile environment
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to develop partnerships and collaborate with other business and functional areas
• Knowledge and understanding of application and web security
• Knowledge and understanding of technology performance: analysis, automated testing, and tuning for applications
• Knowledge of one or more major Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and their primary web service offerings
• Knowledge of automation tools and platforms (Terraform, Crossplane)
• Knowledge of systems engineering configuration management tools and techniques
• Knowledge of modern software development lifecycle processes and tooling (e.g. GitHub Enterprise, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery)
• Knowledge of cloud-native application orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes, Nomad)

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time
• This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This role is not eligible for relocation assistance