Principal Engineer – AI & Systems Intelligence

Wells Fargo

. Be responsible for participating in the creation and implementation of a technology framework and providing strong technical expertise to application development teams and senior technology management .

Posted 4/9/2026full-timeIselin • New Jersey, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGradleJavaJenkinsMavenMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLOraclePythonRDBMSSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Be responsible for participating in the creation and implementation of a technology framework and providing strong technical expertise to application development teams and senior technology management
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations and/or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
Knowledge and experience applying key technology advancements such as Cloud & Big Data, Graph Technology, and/or AI/Machine Learning
Be responsible for being a technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader for technology engineering discipline such as applications, micro-services, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies
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
Develop standards and best practices for engineering complex, large-scale technology solutions to address highly complex and typically cross-organizational issues in the Architecture and Transformation area, while maintaining broad knowledge of other technology engineering disciplines and partnering with other key experts.
Provide expert counsel to senior technology leadership and advises and mentors others with the goal of knowledge transfer.
Be the escalation point for teams facing extremely complex technical challenges
Provide executive level updates for complex platform solutions
Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
Lead team technically, provide coaching and development, drive architecture/design reviews focused on business requirements

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5+ years of Core Java experience with Java open-source stack & frameworks, Spring, Spring boot
3+ years of experience working with NoSQL Database such as MongoDB and RDBMS as well with databases such as SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL
3+ years of microservices development, domain driven design and API’s design
3+ years of experience with Cloud technologies, enterprise pipelines based on Gradle, Maven and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Harness, Github, etc.
2+ years of experience in Python and building back-end services/APIs.
1+ years of experience with at least one: LangChain / LangGraph, Llamalndex or equivalent frameworks.
1+ years of experience in building AI / Agentic AI application

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

architecture experienceCore JavaSpringSpring BootNoSQL DatabaseMongoDBRDBMSSQL ServerOracleMySQL

Soft Skills

technical expertiseinnovationstrategic thought leadershipmentoringcommunicationinfluencing stakeholderscoachingproblem-solvingknowledge transferteam leadership