Global Payments Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo•Charlotte, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to be part of the Global Payments & Liquidity Treasury Technology organization helping to drive delivery of critical technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have expertise in architecting and designing solutions that promote reusability, scalability, efficiency, and resiliency and possess strong communication skills to articulate the proposed solutions with both technical and business partners. This role will enable the candidate to work across a horizontal set of payment products helping set payment standards across the board and aligning the strategy towards omni channel, unified payment workflows. The ideal candidate will collaborate across Technology, Platform Support and Business partners focusing on strategic vision, AI solutions and optimization of redundant payment systems. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com In this role, you will: Assist development team of experienced engineers with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk Collaborate with, partner with and influence Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers Identify AI solutions and strategies for speed to market and optimized payment solutions

Requirements

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 experience with J2EE architecture (including Kafka, JMS, RESTful or SOAP/REST web services)
5+ years of MongoDB experience
7+ years of experience
Strong understanding of Service-Oriented and microservices architectures and user Interface design
4+ years of experience with Payment Systems – ACH, and/or Wires strongly preferred
3+ years of experience with REACT, JSON, XML,

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience working with Microservices, J2EE architecture
Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
Must be able to work on multiple projects in virtual environment where key team members and partners are in various time zones and locations
Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and implement change
Proficient in monitoring and observability tools like Splunk and Grafana
Strong understanding of middleware and application server concepts like Integration, Transactions and XA transaction, Security, Connection pooling, Load balancing and Messaging; clustered server environment and familiar with system performance related tasks
Must have excellent communications and teamwork skills, be self-directed, self-motivated, committed, and a quick learner.

Responsibilities

Assist development team of experienced engineers with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture
Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
Collaborate with, partner with and influence Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
Identify AI solutions and strategies for speed to market and optimized payment solutions