Principal Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT) team within Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB). In this role, you will help design, build, and deliver innovative technology solutions that support critical banking and capital markets platforms used by clients around the world. Working on complex, large-scale initiatives, you will collaborate closely with software engineers, architects, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions that align with strategic business objectives. You will play a key role in driving engineering excellence, advancing modern technology capabilities, and enabling growth across a diverse portfolio of banking, lending, investment banking, and markets services. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while partnering with teams across the organization to solve complex challenges and deliver value to clients globally.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs

• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 5+ years of experience with enterprise grade Manage File Transfer leading industry products such as Axway Secure Transport, IBM Connect Direct, Sterling B2B integrator or equivalent solutions.

• 3+ years of experience with secure file transfer protocols including SFTP, As2, NDM etc.

• 5+ years of experience with encryption technologies including PGP/GPG, SSL/TLS, digital certificates, key management, and data protection best practices

• 3+ years of experience with cloud storage and object storage technologies such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google cloud storage

• 5+ years of experience with designing resilient, highly available, and secure enterprise file transfer architecture

• 3+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP

• 5+ years of experience with deploying and managing applications using K8/OpenShift, docker containers and modern cloud native architectures

• 5+ years of experience with supporting enterprise B2B managed file integrations, large scale partner onboarding, and migrations

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to partner with business, application teams, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture

• Ability to drive engineering excellence through automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and operational metrics

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• Must be able to work on-site at the listed location

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Job Posting Location

• 2600 S Price Rd., Chandler, AZ 85286

Posting End Date:

1 Oct 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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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.

Req Number: R-578273