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Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architecture and strategy behind enterprise metadata, data lineage, and AI-enabled data platforms that power critical business decisions across the organization. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape long-term technology direction, influence senior leaders, and drive innovation at enterprise scale. In this role, you will: 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 Establish Enterprise Metadata and Lineage Architecture Define scalable architecture patterns for metadata ingestion, scanning, lineage derivation, and repository integration. Standardize onboarding approaches across diverse technology stacks and domains. Ensure consistency of metadata models and interoperability with enterprise governance platforms. Accelerate Metadata Coverage Across the Bank Lead initiatives to rapidly expand metadata harvesting and scanning coverage from legacy and modern platforms. Drive automation strategies that reduce manual metadata capture and improve onboarding velocity. Enable industrial-scale adoption of metadata management capabilities. Deliver Enterprise Lineage Capabilities Lead engineering efforts for element-level lineage and lineage-as-a-service capabilities. Support regulatory, risk, operational resilience, and change management requirements through trusted lineage. Reduce time required for impact analysis and root-cause investigations. Drive Innovation and AI Enablement Advance AI-assisted metadata enrichment, semantic discovery, knowledge graph creation, and automated governance workflows. Enable future-state capabilities that support AI adoption through improved data visibility, discoverability, and trust. Provide Technical Leadership Across Multiple Agile Teams Mentor engineering teams across metadata management, data quality, observability, platform engineering, and governance tooling. Resolve complex cross-domain integration challenges and guide critical architectural decisions. Partner with senior technology and business leaders to align roadmaps and execution priorities.
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Principal
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