Principal Engineer

Overview

Principal Engineer role at Wells Fargo focused on advising leadership and delivering long-term, enterprise-scale engineering solutions across software, infrastructure, security, and AI/GenAI.

What you'll do

• Act as an advisor to leadership to influence and develop applications, network, information security, databases, operating systems, or web technologies.
• Lead strategy and resolution of highly complex, unique enterprise challenges.
• Translate business objectives and enterprise technology needs into engineering solution designs.
• Provide vision and expertise to implement innovative business solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and recommend innovations that enhance operations or competitive advantage.
• Serve as an expert advisor across the enterprise and influence architecture and engineering standards.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of engineering experience (or equivalent via work experience, training, military experience, or education).
• Hands-on Java engineering experience across modern JVM stacks, microservices, distributed systems, and performance engineering.
• Experience architecting and building AI-powered solutions, including LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG patterns, model orchestration, AI pipelines, and responsible AI practices.
• Background in cloud-native architectures including containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
• Ability to operate as a technical authority across application, data, AI, platform, and security domains.
• Experience defining long-term technology strategy, reference architectures, and engineering roadmaps aligned with business outcomes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to explain complex concepts to executives and regulators.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.