Principal Platform Engineer, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Location:
United States, Charlotte

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled platform architect that will serve as a technical leader in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise platform architectures with a focus on OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform for Enterprise Functions Technologies (EFT).

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
Architect and optimize platforms leveraging OpenShift, Azure, and GCP to support containerized and cloud-native applications
Collaborate with IT teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to define and implement hybrid and multicloud strategies
Implement best practices for platform security, governance, and compliance, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and security frameworks
Drive the adoption of automation and DevOps methodologies for continuous integration/continuous deployment including the implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code
Optimize workloads across platforms for performance, availability, and cost efficiency
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to platform engineers and development teams
Stay up to date with emerging container and cloud technologies and trends and help guide adoption of their use within EFT
Ensure platform designs meet disaster recovery and business continuity requirements while providing playbooks on how to execute against the design expectations

Requirements:

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
6+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years specializing in OCP/Azure/GCP
4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and deploying scalable, secure environments using OCP/Azure/GCP services
3+ years of hands-on experience with automation tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, Helm Charts, Azure Blueprints, and GCP Cloud Deployment Manager
3+ years of experience deploying architecture solutions into container/cloud environments via CI/CD pipelines
3+ years of experience with architecture diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, LucidChart, Miro, etc.)

Nice to have:

Google Professional Cloud Architect/Azure Solutions Architect/Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect certification desired
Proven experience in the design, deployment, and management of large-scale container/cloud solutions (preferably in financial services environments)
Strong understanding of container/cloud security principles including encryption and identity, networking policies, and access management
Exposure to container/cloud governance and logging/monitoring tooling
Understanding, engineering and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

What we offer:

Relocation assistance is not available for this position
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
July 08, 2025

Expiration:
July 18, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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