Client Reference Data Solutions Principal Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Client Technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking. Learn more about the career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com.

The Principal Engineer serves as the senior technical leader responsible for defining and driving the technology vision, architecture strategy, engineering standards, and modernization roadmap across the Client Reference Data (CRD) and Markets Product Fulfillment portfolios. This role partners closely with business, product, architecture, cybersecurity, and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, resilient, secure, and AI-enabled platforms that support critical Markets onboarding, client data, settlement, fulfillment, and reference data capabilities.

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 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 new 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
• 3+ years of experience with AI products like Chat GPT, Claude, Devin & Gemini 
• 5+ years of experience with multi-discipline data design, relational, NoSQL & Document Style 
• 5+ years of experience with data replication technology & change data capture leveraging streaming (Apache Spark, Flink or others) 
• 7+ years of Experience on data profiling and discovery, business and technical metadata management, master data processing - canonical vocabulary mapping, de-duping, and identity resolution
• 7+ years of experience working in Financial industry

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with identity resolution, taxonomies, namespaces, ontology-based systems, and semantic technologies, including knowledge graphs, RDF, OWL, Neo4j, semantic layers, and query federation
• Experience designing resilient, highly available data solutions and implementing data integration, federation, and distribution patterns, including event-driven architectures, change data capture (CDC), and APIs
• Experience with Big Data and NoSQL technologies, including MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase, Kafka, Spark, and similar distributed data platforms
• Strong understanding of quality, security, risk, and compliance requirements across enterprise data initiatives
• Broad and deep technical expertise in data architecture, object modeling, APIs, and service contracts
• Demonstrated curiosity and commitment to researching emerging technologies and industry trends

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Job Location:

333 Market St- San Francisco, California 94105

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$191,000.00 - $305,000.00

Posting End Date:

30 Aug 2026

Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.