Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo Bank•McLean, VA

About The Position

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

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 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

Nice To Haves

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)

Responsibilities

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