Principal Engineer -Salesforce

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Advisor Platform Team within Wealth and Investment Management Technology (WIMT).This role will be responsible for design and build out of the Customer Relationship Management system (Salesforce) to support the Client Relationship Group at Wells Fargo. This role focuses on enhancing the Advisor Desktop experience and tools to support growth across various advisor channels. The position involves close collaboration with product and technology partners along with business stakeholders to create a seamless and integrated desktop experience that aligns with the firm's strategic goals

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
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture, for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high-risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
• Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
• Interpret, develop and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate with, partner with and influence Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
• Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
• Build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of 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 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform, Salesforce
• 5+ years of programming languages like Java, C#, Python, or JavaScript
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience designing and developing microservices architectures, especially for scalable, modular CRM solutions

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years working in large enterprise environments
• 5+ years of Agile experience
• Knowledge or experience in ETL batch processing is nice to have
• Understanding on a broad level IT infrastructure, database, and application development and design; this should include an understanding of Cloud based service topology
• Knowledge and understanding of financial services industry
• Ability to manage large or multiple technology development efforts within a major line of business
• Experience working with IT Governance, Controls and Risk partners
• Ability to effectively manage resources and drive efficiencies and innovation

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work additio