About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a high performing Principal Engineer to improve our datacenter exits and cloud migration velocity with a customer first mindset. In this position, the candidate will focus on providing solutions to technical migration challenges for applications, enhancing the DevOps model for migrations as well as improving operational performance and readiness with a proven track record for problem solving.
CTO/CIO (Chief Technology Office/Chief Information Office) - Digital Infrastructure Strategy Program (DISP) is seeking high performing Principal Engineer to join our high-performing migration engineering team. In this position, the candidate is responsible for execution of the datacenter exit and cloud migration strategy across the enterprise including: creating solution designs for enabling Application Development and vendor groups with the necessary tools & frameworks to migrate to new datacenters and/or cloud, collaborating on best practices and technical guidance to operate within new datacenters and cloud, establishing cloud adoption frameworks for consistent change/release management, deliver robust end-to-end solution designs, and providing operational transparency through metrics and communications on the overall progress. As a member of the team, you will be a part of an organization enabling & accelerating CIO's business value through meaningful moves of business workloads to new datacenters and cloud (public and private) in a predictable, compliant, and scalable way.
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As a Principal Engineer you will be part of the DISP Portfolio Management team. The team will be focused on creating and sharing best practices and technical guidance required by the application and platform teams across the Line of Businesses, while developing and operating in a cloud environment. This group will also be responsible for collaborating with the Line of Businesses to ensure comprehensive solution designs, effective partnerships, proper representation for the voice of the customer, and operational readiness of the Application Development teams to ensure that they are well equipped to operate a cloud native/friendly application.
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.
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 2+ years of experience in a Hosting Admin or Lead Developer role
- Understanding of common security practice such as OIDC/LDAP/AD-ENT: termination points such as SSL certificates
- Experience with major product refreshes and agile development methodology.
- Experience working in multi-developer environment using version control (i.e. Git)
- Exposure to REST API/Microservice
- The ability to script/code using Python.
- Experience with hosting administration roles and Kanban
- Experience with technical solutioning and system architecture design
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with other technical teams (i.e. data ingestion, data science, operational systems) to align priorities and achieve deliverable outcomes.
- Experience with reviewing coding standards, performing code reviews, and mentoring junior team members.
- Experience overseeing project delivery by mentoring junior technical developers.
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment.
- Experience with Azure at scale
- Experience with deployment/scaling of applications on containerized environment (i.e. Kubernetes, AKS)
- The role offers a hybrid in-office work schedule
- The position does not offer any visa sponsorship or transfers
2 Oct 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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