Regulated Messaging Principal Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a...

The Principal Engineer partners closely with product management, enterprise architecture, cyber security, risk, compliance, legal, and operations teams to ensure regulated messaging solutions are secure by design, resilient, compliant with global regulatory obligations, and defensible for supervision, investigations, and eDiscovery. This role focuses on the how—translating regulatory, legal, and business requirements into scalable technical designs, reference architectures, and implementation patterns that can be executed consistently across the enterprise.

Regulated messaging capabilities span message capture, normalization, retention, supervision, surveillance, archiving, search, legal hold, and evidentiary integrity across multiple communication modalities and vendor platforms.

*In this role, you will:*

• Serve as the top technical subject matter expert for regulated messaging, digital communications governance, and eComms archiving platforms
• Define and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, and design patterns for capture, retention, surveillance, and archiving technologies
• Lead the design and resolution of the most complex technical challenges, including scale, latency, data integrity, resiliency, and regulatory constraints
• Provide hands-on technical guidance for critical initiatives, platform integrations, migrations, and modernization efforts
• Ensure retention, supervision, surveillance, legal hold, and evidentiary integrity requirements are embedded into solutions from inception
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Cyber Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Operations to deliver compliant and operationally sound solutions
• Influence platform strategy, vendor roadmaps, and technical investment decisions within the regulated messaging domain
• Review and approve high-risk or high-impact designs, changes, and architectural exceptions
• Act as an escalation point for major incidents, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions affecting regulated communications
• Mentor senior engineers and set expectations for engineering rigor and compliance-by-design across the domain

*Required Qualifications:*

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Hands-on engineering experience with regulated messaging and archiving platforms
• Expertise designing highly resilient, fault-tolerant data pipelines for message ingestion, storage, and retrieval

*Desired Qualifications:*

• Deep expertise in digital communications governance, including:
• eComms capture, normalization, and enrichment
• Retention, supervision, surveillance, and alerting workflows
• Legal hold, eDiscovery, and evidentiary integrity
• Hands-on engineering experience with regulated messaging and archiving platforms
• Strong understanding of multi-channel communications capture across chat, email, collaboration, and voice

*Job Expectations:*

• Stable, compliant, and defensible regulated messaging platforms with minimal high-severity incidents
• Clear, adopted reference architectures and engineering standards across the regulated messaging domain
• Improved regulatory posture, surveillance effectiveness, and data integrity
• Strong partnership with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Operations enabling consistent and defensible outcomes

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:

24 Apr 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

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.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

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