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Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide deep technical leadership for the design, evolution, and modernization of our distributed, high‑performance compute platforms supporting mission‑critical risk computation. This role is pivotal in architecting next‑generation grid and distributed computing capabilities, optimizing compute‑intensive workloads, and ensuring our platforms scale reliably to support significantly larger data volumes, more complex calculations, and increasingly stringent SLA and regulatory requirements. The Principal Engineer will play a key role in enabling our transition toward cloud‑enabled, distributed risk computation frameworks while championing AI/GenAI‑driven solutioning across the platform.
Job Responsibility:
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
Provide architectural leadership for large‑scale, compute‑intensive risk platforms that are reaching the limits of existing designs and infrastructure
Define and evolve distributed, scalable, and resilient system architectures for high‑performance risk computation workloads
Lead performance engineering and optimization initiatives to improve throughput, reduce latency, and lower overall compute costs while meeting aggressive SLAs
Drive resiliency, availability, and fault‑tolerance improvements required for mission‑critical and regulator‑visible risk calculations
Establish technical ownership and accountability across multiple teams, enforcing consistent engineering standards and best practices
Act as a senior technical advisor across delivery teams, influencing design decisions and resolving complex cross‑cutting technical challenges
Partner with business, risk, and regulatory stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with evolving requirements
Lead and mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of high engineering rigor, innovation, and continuous improvement
Champion strategic modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, distributed computation frameworks, and adoption of AI/GenAI/Agentic AI where applicable
Collaborate closely with infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE teams to ensure operational excellence, observability, and efficient incident response
Operate within an agile delivery framework, enabling rapid, high‑quality delivery of business outcomes
Own end‑to‑end technical design and quality for critical platform components
Drive results with a strong sense of urgency, bringing complex technical issues to resolution despite ambiguity or resistance
Proactively identify architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, and operational gaps, and define mitigation strategies
Partner with multiple teams to reduce defects, improve engineering consistency, and accelerate time to market
Provide hands‑on guidance during complex debugging, performance tuning, and production incidents
Demonstrate outstanding flexibility, collaboration, and leadership across diverse technical and non‑technical teams
Ensure adherence to agreed timelines, engineering standards, and regulatory expectations
Exhibit an impeccable sense of ownership and accountability for platform stability, scalability, and long‑term sustainability
Requirements:
7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Overall 15+ years of Software Engineering experience
Expert‑level proficiency in Core Java, including: Advanced multithreading and concurrency models, JVM internals, memory management, and JVM/GC performance tuning
Proven expertise in high‑throughput system design and performance engineering
Strong hands‑on experience with reactive and asynchronous programming models, including lock‑free and wait‑free data structures
Deep understanding of distributed systems, including: Akka Cluster management and coordination (desired), Designing for fault tolerance, scalability, and network partitions
Experience with event‑driven and messaging systems, such as: Kafka, JMS, Solace, Aeron, or MQ, especially for real‑time data processing and low‑latency use cases
Strong experience with distributed caching technologies, particularly Apache Ignite (desired)
Solid expertise in SQL and query optimization for high‑volume, compute‑heavy data workloads
Advanced knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and core computer science fundamentals
Working knowledge of computer networking concepts relevant to distributed systems
Experience working on Linux/Unix platforms in production environments
Familiarity with modern engineering and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, UDeploy, CI/CD pipelines)
Strong proponent and practitioner of AI / GenAI / Agentic AI‑based solutioning, with the ability to identify and drive high‑value use cases
Prior experience in Capital Markets / Investment Banking, preferably in risk, trading, or regulatory platforms
Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder‑management skills
Flexibility in schedule as occasionally required for critical releases or incidents
Nice to have:
Akka Cluster management and coordination
Apache Ignite
Prior experience in Capital Markets / Investment Banking, preferably in risk, trading, or regulatory platforms