Principal Engineer, Agentic Identity Security

Wells Fargo

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Closes in 4 days

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irving, TXCharlotte, NCColumbus, OH
Salary
$159,000–$254,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 5, 2026 (soon)

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About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

Wells Fargo currently has 32 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Engineer, Agentic Identity Security

The Principal Engineer - Agentic Identity Security joins the Identity and Access Management Engineering team to serve as a senior technical leader. This role involves defining enterprise architecture and security strategies for agentic identity, including AI agents, autonomous systems, and machine identities. You will build reference architectures, engineering standards, and security patterns to ensure responsible AI innovation while maintaining auditability and regulatory compliance. Key responsibilities include designing authentication, authorization, and lifecycle management models for non-human identities. You will utilize technologies such as Microsoft Entra ID, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, CyberArk, and Saviynt, while applying knowledge of OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, and SPIFFE/SPIRE. The work focuses on solving complex security challenges for emerging autonomous technologies within a highly regulated financial services environment using Zero Trust principles.

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What you'll do

  • Define the enterprise architecture and security strategy for AI agents, autonomous systems, and non-human identities.
  • Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable security patterns, and solution blueprints for agentic identity.
  • Design authentication, authorization, lifecycle management, and auditability models specifically for AI agents.
  • Develop security patterns for agent registration, agent-to-agent communication, and capability-based authorization.
  • Architect integrations across Identity Governance, Privileged Access Management, cloud, and cybersecurity platforms.
  • Translate strategic business objectives into practical, scalable, and secure identity engineering solutions.
  • Evaluate emerging platforms and vendor capabilities related to AI security and non-human identity governance.
  • Ensure all architecture and engineering solutions meet internal control, risk, and regulatory compliance requirements.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
  • 7+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, cybersecurity, software engineering, or enterprise architecture.
  • 5+ years of experience designing enterprise identity architecture and identity-centric security solutions.
  • Experience defining enterprise architecture and security strategies for agentic AI, autonomous systems, machine identities, or workload identities (preferred).
  • Experience securing AI agents, large language model integrations, agent orchestration frameworks, and autonomous platforms (preferred).
  • Experience designing authentication, authorization, delegated access, identity lifecycle management, observability, and accountability controls for AI agents (preferred).
  • Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure, AWS, GCP, CyberArk, Saviynt, or similar enterprise identity and cloud platforms (preferred).
  • Relevant identity, cloud, architecture, or security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF, or equivalent credentials (preferred).

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