Principal Architect

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Architect in our Architecture & Engineering Group as part of Consumer Technology. Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com. The Core Banking Architect will lead the architecture strategy for the bank’s Core Banking Modernization program, owning the end-to-end architectural vision across a multi-year (3+ year) transformation roadmap. This role combines long-term strategic planning with hands-on leadership for active initiatives and transition efforts, ensuring alignment between business objectives, platform strategy, and execution. The architect will partner closely with senior business leaders, technology executives, and domain architects to translate high-level strategy into actionable guidance for delivery teams. Key responsibilities include setting architectural direction, governing design decisions, guiding vendor and platform usage, and ensuring consistency across domains, integrations, and migration activities. This position has a specialized focus on Product and Pricing capabilities, which are critical to the bank’s Payments and Core Banking modernization strategy. The architect will bring deep expertise in enterprise product catalog and pricing engine design, including relationship-based pricing models, and will define how pricing and product rules are structured, governed, and executed across channels and platforms. Success in this role requires the ability to influence executive stakeholders while also collaborating closely with engineering and delivery teams to drive implementation. Ultimately, this role serves as a key bridge between strategy and execution, ensuring scalable, consistent, and future-ready core banking capabilities.