Job Summary

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide enterprise-level technical leadership for the modernization and convergence of Governance, Risk Compliance (GRC), Testing Monitoring, and Audit platforms.

This role will drive the transformation of vendor-centric and legacy solutions into a unified ecosystem built on reusable digital experiences, shared services, common data capabilities, and AI-powered platforms. The Principal Engineer will define the technology strategy and architecture while remaining deeply engaged with engineering teams to solve complex technical challenges and deliver practical outcomes.

Responsibilities

- Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
- Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
- Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
- Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
- Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and recent technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
- Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.

Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of Engineering experience,



or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications

- Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Strong frontend architecture and development experience using React and TypeScript.
- Experience modernizing platforms built on commercial products such as Archer, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise systems.
- Proven experience building reusable platforms, common services, and shared engineering capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and orchestration frameworks.
- Experience building AI-enabled enterprise solutions using Python.
- Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, semantic search, graph databases, and ontology-based architectures.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms, containers, DevSecOps, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Strong understanding of data governance, auditability, security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational risk.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic architecture with hands-on engineering engagement.
- Strong communication, mentoring, and stakeholder influence skills.
- Lead architecture and engineering strategy across GRC, Testing Monitoring, and Audit modernization initiatives.
- Drive adoption of common technologies including React, Java-based microservices, shared data platforms, and Python-based AI services.




- Define reusable capabilities, integration patterns, data models, and platform services that can be leveraged across multiple domains.
- Ensure architectural alignment across major programs while enabling teams to deliver independently.
- Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies including Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge Graphs, and intelligent automation.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape through consolidation, standardization, and platform reuse.
- Partner with business, risk, audit, compliance, security, and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant solutions.
- Serve as a hands-on technology leader through architecture reviews, design sessions, prototyping, code reviews, and complex problem resolution.

Job Expectations

- Shape the target-state architecture across GRC, Testing Monitoring, and Audit platforms.
- Establish a common technology stack centered on React, Java microservices, shared data capabilities, and AI-enabled platforms.
- Drive the development of reusable interfaces, common services, enterprise data capabilities, and an AI control plane for intelligent automation.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Maintain deep hands-on involvement with critical architecture, design, and engineering decisions.
- Challenge legacy approaches and promote modernization, simplification, automation, and reuse.
- Mentor engineers and architects while elevating engineering standards across the organization.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and convert promising innovations into practical business solutions.
- Operate as an enterprise Principal Engineer, focusing on platform strategy, architectural alignment, and measurable business outcomes.

📌 Principal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wells Fargo
📍 Bengaluru