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Principal Engineer - Java with Gen AI @ Wells Fargo

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 Principal Engineer - Java with Gen AI

Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer for Digital Technology Innovation team.

Wells Fargo is building next-generation GenAI-powered and API-first Open Banking platforms for Commercial and Corporate Banking. We are hiring a Principal Engineer with deep Java ecosystem expertise to architect and scale enterprise-grade AI systems operating at global banking scale.

This role requires a hands-on technologist who can combine strong Java-based distributed systems engineering with modern GenAI architecture patterns in a regulated financial environment.

You will own foundational platform components that integrate LLM-driven capabilities into high-throughput, mission-critical banking systems.

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

Desired Qualifications:

  • Strong hands-on expertise in Java ecosystem (Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, concurrency, performance tuning) and Python
  • Proven experience designing large-scale distributed systems in production
  • 1- 2 years of experience delivering GenAI systems, including hands-on work with:
    • Applications powered by LLMs
    • RAG architectures
    • Embeddings and vector databases
    • Agent frameworks and orchestration
  • Experience integrating AI services into enterprise backend platforms
  • Strong cloud-native experience (GCP, Azure)
  • Ability to influence architectural decisions across complex systems
  • Experience in Banking/Financial services domains (e.g. commercial or corporate, Payments, Treasury, lending, FX)
  • Experience implementing AI governance, risk, and model validation frameworks
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
  • Experience modernizing legacy Java systems with AI augmentation
  • Excellent communication skills with experience engaging senior stakeholders

Job Expectations:

  • Deployment of GenAI services embedded into core Java-based banking platforms
  • Strong alignment between AI capabilities and commercial banking product strategy
  • Production-grade GenAI applications integrated into Java-based enterprise platforms
  • RAG pipelines, agent orchestration layers, and AI service abstractions callable from core Java systems
  • Secure, compliant Open Banking APIs powering high-volume enterprise clients
  • Observability, resilience, and governance frameworks for AI-enabled services
  • Design and implement high-performance distributed systems primarily in Java (Spring Boot, microservices architecture), ReactJS and MicroFrontends
  • Integrate LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI orchestration frameworks into enterprise Java systems
  • Lead deep technical design reviews across backend, API, and AI integration layers
  • Partner with Product and Business leaders to shape AI-enabled banking capabilities
  • Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering rigor across the organization
  • You will solve hard engineering problems inside regulated, mission-critical environments
  • You will influence AI platform direction at scale and build durable systems not prototypes

Job Classification

Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Role: Blockchain Quality Assurance Engineer
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Wells Fargo
Location(s): Bengaluru

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Keyskills:   java rest python ai operating systems regulatory compliance llm microservices banking spring boot open banking gcp recruitment compliance treasury kafka microservices architecture systems engineering architecture azure

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