Principal Engineer - Flink, Object Store & GCP

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer

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:

• Overall 16+ years' experience and

  Lead the Data technology transformation and implementation initiative for Corporate & Investment Banking.
• Strong experience with real-time low latency Data pipelines using Apache Flink.
• Strong experience with GCP-Cloud transformation and implementation, well versed with Big Query. Experience in cloud Migration from HDFS to GCP.
• Experience working with real-time low latency Data pipelines.

• Experience with Iceberg, Object Store (AWS S3/Minio) will be an added advantage.

• Well versed with Data Warehousing/Lakehouse methodologies.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Data Environment Transformation/Simplification

• Lead the application transformation and rationalization initiatives
• Analyzes performance trends and recommends process improvements; assesses changes for risk to production systems and assures quality, security and compliance requirements
• Evaluate, incubate, adopt modern technologies and engineering practices and recommends innovations that provide competitive advantage to the organization
• Develop strategies to improve developer productivity and reduce technology debt
• Develop strategy to improve data quality and maintenance of data lineage

Architecture Oversight

• Develops consistent architecture strategy and delivers safe, secure and consistent architecture solutions.
• Reduces technology risk by working closely with architect and design solutions that aligns to architecture roadmap, enterprise principles, policies and standards
• Partner with Enterprise cloud platform, CI/CD pipelines, platform teams, architects, engineering managers and the developer community.

Job Expectations:

• Act as liaison between business and technical organization by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of highly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems.
• Provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements
• Acts as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by using quality tools and process definition/improvement to re-engineer technical processes for greater efficiencies

We are open for both the locations - Hyderabad or Bangalore