Principal Engineer – Automation

Wells Fargo

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Charlotte, US Posted 9 days ago
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TL;DR

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer – Automation within the Chief Data Office to lead technical initiatives for data and analytics platforms. This role involves advising leadership on automation architectures, resolving complex operational challenges, and designing end-to-end automation solutions that enhance speed and reliability across legacy and modern ecosystems. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Python, Spark, and DevSecOps, with a focus on AI-infused automation to reduce manual dependency and improve audit readiness. They must possess strong skills in operational automation, orchestration, and decision-making in high-risk environments, as well as experience in transforming legacy systems to modern automation frameworks at an enterprise scale.

Skills

Python Spark DevSecOps Kubernetes CI/CD Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL AWS Azure AI Machine Learning Automation Frameworks Git Jenkins

What you'll do

  • Act as an advisor to leadership on developing automation architectures for complex data platforms.
  • Lead the resolution of time-critical automation challenges across legacy and modern environments.
  • Design end-to-end automation solutions to improve operational speed, consistency, and reliability.
  • Translate organizational objectives into effective engineering solutions that preserve data integrity.
  • Provide vision and expertise to leadership on implementing AI-infused automation for emergency scenarios.

What we're looking for

  • Experience designing and implementing automation solutions across enterprise data, analytics, and BI platforms
  • Strong understanding of operational automation, orchestration, and AI-enabled decisioning in complex environments
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy across multiple data and platform teams
  • Automation of high-risk/high-frequency operations with production impact
  • AI-infused automation strategy beyond basic scripting for decision-making and optimization
  • Experience in legacy-to-modern automation transformation
  • Enterprise-scale reliability engineering mindset focusing on stability, resiliency, and audit readiness

Market check

Salary context

This listing doesn't show a salary. Similar roles on FindRole typically pay $131,250–$223,550.

Peer median band

$131,250–$223,550

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,767–$225,000

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $159,000–$305,000 across 16 roles with salary data.

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