Principal Cloud Engineer
| Company | Wells Fargo |
|---|---|
| Location | Westlake, TX, USA, Charlotte, NC, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 3+ years of experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP, OpenShift) and hands-on experience with cloud-native development and Cloud migration of applications
- 1+ years knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and/or agentic workflows in generative AI applications
Responsibilities
- Build Large Language Model services that support powerful capabilities for internal Wells Fargo users, with a focus on agentic operational services, model feedback and tuning mechanisms, and safety guardrails.
- Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
- Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
- Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
- Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
- Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
- Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
- Influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmaps, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
- Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong focus on Generative AI model safety and accuracy, with awareness of ethical and risk considerations.
- Proficiency in DevOps tools and practices, including infrastructure as code.
- Strong experience collaborating with product and business stakeholders to deliver valuable and user-centric solutions.
- Financial industry experience or familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities.
- Expertise in test-driven development methodologies.
- Cybersecurity and Risk Mindset: proactively identifies risks and integrates secure practices into development workflows.
- End-user experience focused: delivers intuitive, valuable solutions that align with employee needs.
- Mission-aligned: shares Wells Fargo’s vision of transforming the employee experience through generative AI.