Principal Architect – Enterprise Reconciliation Platform

Wells Fargo

Senior Architect at Wells Fargo focusing on enterprise reconciliation strategy, defining architecture and leading complex business challenges. Collaborating with Finance, Operations, Risk, and Engineering teams.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeIrving • North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudMicroservicesRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the architecture strategy for enterprise reconciliation, establishing a modern utility model with modular, reusable capabilities
Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, defining and advancing the architectural vision, framework, and delivery for highly complex business and technical challenges across the enterprise
Lead the development of current state, target state, and transition architecture for the Reconciliation Utility Product across business, data, application, and technology domains
Drive resolution of complex, cross-domain challenges, delivering long-term, scalable solutions that require innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and enterprise-wide coordination
Establish enterprise data and integration patterns, including event-driven and stream-first architectures for reconciliation across core banking systems, payment rails, and external data sources
Lead application rationalization and capability convergence across reconciliation tools and vendor platforms, optimizing total cost of ownership and return on investment
Define and govern canonical data models, UDM alignment, and end-to-end data lineage, traceability, and control frameworks
Embed AI/GenAI capabilities into reconciliation workflows, including automated matching, exception classification, and intelligent decision support
Influence strategic and investment planning, including build vs. buy decisions, vendor strategy, architecture frameworks, and execution roadmaps aligned to target state
Drive adoption of cloud-native, microservices-based, and API-first architectures, ensuring scalable, resilient, high-performance solutions and enforcing non-functional requirements
Provide architecture governance through design reviews, risk assessments, and compliance alignment, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards, audit, and regulatory 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 expertise in data architecture, integration patterns, and high-volume transaction processing systems within complex, regulated environments (e.g., financial services, operations platforms)
5+ years of experience designing cloud-native, event-driven architectures (microservices, APIs, streaming) with the ability to define scalable, resilient, and secure solutions aligned to enterprise standards
2+ years of AI/ML and GenAI integration, including applying intelligent automation to operational workflows (e.g., matching, anomaly detection, classification)

Benefits

Comp & perks

This position offers a hybrid work schedule
Relocation assistance is not available for this position
Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

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Hard Skills & Tools

architecture strategydata architectureintegration patternsevent-driven architecturecloud-native architecturemicroservicesAPIsAI integrationGenAIautomated matching

Soft Skills

strategic advisoranalytical thinkingenterprise-wide coordinationinfluencegovernancerisk assessmentcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvinginnovation