Senior Data Engineer

Wells Fargo

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Closes in 4 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CACharlotte, NC
Salary
$100,000–$196,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Sep 18, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $173k
This role $148k
$87k most similar roles pay here $225k

This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $135,675–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $148k versus about $173k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 55 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,000–$206,000 across 29 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer joins the AI/ML Data Architecture, Engineering and Enablement team within the Data, Analytics and Reporting Technology group. This role focuses on building scalable, secure data pipelines from on-premise systems to Google Cloud Platform services like BigQuery, BigTable, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage. You will develop reusable frameworks for ingestion, transformation, and orchestration while creating a common feature store with strong lineage and high availability. The position requires expertise in Python, SQL, and Beam to build transformation libraries, alongside experience with Cloud Composer or Workflows for CI/CD integration. Key responsibilities include implementing robust data modeling, ensuring cost-effective performance of cloud workloads, and enforcing data quality through monitoring dashboards. This role solves the challenge of providing standardized, governed data capabilities to support machine learning and AI at enterprise scale.

What does a Data Engineer earn in California?

Median $198000 from 39 postings across 23 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop scalable, secure data pipelines moving data from on-premise systems to Google Cloud Platform services.
  • Build and maintain reusable frameworks for ingestion, transformation, quality, and orchestration.
  • Create standardized feature transformation pipelines and a common feature store with high availability and lineage.
  • Develop Python and SQL libraries for common patterns like SCD, data quality checks, and masking.
  • Provide orchestration capabilities using Cloud Composer or Cloud Workflows with integrated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement robust data modeling and semantic layer implementations using BigQuery.
  • Enforce data quality, lineage, and observability through standardized metrics and monitoring dashboards.
  • Partner with data scientists to migrate existing models onto GCP infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of Data Engineering experience or equivalent through work, training, military service, or education.
  • 4+ years of experience creating analytics or data science solutions in public clouds like GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python and/or Go for building data pipelines, libraries, and automation tooling.
  • 4+ years of experience with GCP or equivalent open source orchestration tools and CI/CD for data workloads.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience building and implementing predictive AI models using machine learning algorithms.
  • Experience with logging/monitoring stacks, automated testing, and model governance such as drift and bias detection (preferred).
  • Experience with model development and operations technologies like Vertex, Bedrock, SageMaker, or MLFlow (preferred).
  • Experience with advanced modeling techniques, generative AI solutions, or data optimization for RAGs (preferred).

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