Principal Engineer

Wells Fargo

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chandler, AZ
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 2, 2026 (soon)

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $194k
$129k most similar roles pay here $268k

This listing doesn't post a salary. Most similar roles pay $169,550–$217,700.

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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 44 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $159,000–$254,000 across 23 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Principal Engineer

The Principal Engineer joins the Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology team to design, build, and deliver innovative technology solutions for critical banking and capital markets platforms. This role involves leading complex, large-scale initiatives, developing companywide engineering standards, and mentoring peers while collaborating with architects and product teams. The candidate will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, and documenting systems that support a diverse portfolio of lending, investment banking, and market services. Technical requirements include expertise in enterprise-grade Managed File Transfer products like Axway Secure Transport or IBM Connect Direct, secure protocols such as SFTP and AS2, and encryption technologies including PGP and SSL/TLS. The role also requires experience with cloud storage, AWS, Azure, GCP, and containerization via K8s or OpenShift to manage large-scale partner onboarding and migrations within a complex financial environment.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $178712 from 248 postings across 56 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead complex, large-scale technology initiatives that impact the entire organization.
  • Develop companywide standards and best practices for engineering large-scale technical solutions.
  • Design, code, test, debug, and document software for various projects and programs.
  • Analyze complex technical solutions to ensure they meet strategic business objectives and enterprise requirements.
  • Make high-level decisions on technology standards while influencing teams to adopt new technologies.
  • Consult with internal experts and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues.
  • Mentor peers and lead engineering teams to drive project delivery and excellence.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent through work, training, military service, or education.
  • 5+ years of experience with enterprise grade Manage File Transfer products like Axway Secure Transport, IBM Connect Direct, or Sterling B2B integrator.
  • 3+ years of experience with secure file transfer protocols including SFTP, As2, and NDM.
  • 5+ years of experience with encryption technologies including PGP/GPG, SSL/TLS, digital certificates, and key management.
  • 3+ years of experience with cloud storage and object storage technologies such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob, or Google Cloud Storage.
  • 5+ years of experience with designing resilient, highly available, and secure enterprise file transfer architecture.
  • 5+ years of experience with deploying and managing applications using K8s/OpenShift, Docker containers, and modern cloud native architectures.
  • 5+ years of experience with supporting enterprise B2B managed file integrations, large scale partner onboarding, and migrations.
  • Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams (preferred).
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner with business, application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture teams (preferred).
  • Ability to drive engineering excellence through automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and operational metrics (preferred).

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