Principal Data Engineer
Microsoft
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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 34 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,000–$224,000 across 17 roles with salary data.
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The Principal Engineer - Data Engineering joins the Shared Service Operations Technology team to drive architecture, engineering strategy, and modernization of enterprise-scale data platforms. This leader will design and implement scalable cloud-native data solutions, including data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse architectures to support operational intelligence and regulatory reporting. Day-to-day responsibilities include establishing engineering standards for batch, real-time, and event-driven processing while managing data ingestion, transformation, and metadata-driven frameworks. The role requires expertise in distributed processing using Spark, Hadoop, and Dataproc, alongside cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure. Technical skills include Python, Java, SQL, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. The candidate will solve complex problems regarding data governance, lineage, and security while building resilient pipelines to ensure auditability and compliance within a highly regulated financial services environment.
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