About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly motivated Principal Engineer to design, architect, and lead Data Engineering initiatives within the HR Information Technology organization. This role requires a hands‑on technologist who can anchor critical initiatives to drive operational excellence and enhance employee and customer experience.

The Principal Engineer will provide technical leadership across the design, development, and operationalization of Data and Generative AI solutions, while shaping the enterprise HR data strategy. This role will oversee the architecture and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient data engineering solutions across the HR data ecosystem, enabling advanced analytics, AI‑driven insights, and next‑generation HR capabilities. The Principal Engineer will also act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, influencing architecture decisions, solution design, and implementation strategies to ensure alignment with business objectives, enterprise standards, and long‑term technology strategy.

In this role, you will:




• 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 setting, 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

📌 Principal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wells Fargo
📍 Bengaluru