Principal Engineer Automation

Secure Network Services Automation Innovation: This team drives Automation strategies for SNS. Ensuring high standards, strong governance and continuous improvement. Driving innovation through Proof of Concepts and pre-chasm initiatives. Collaborating closely with senior leadership to meet business needs on high visibility projects.

All while fostering a culture of excellence, scaling software development practices. Ensuring we build secure and reliable Automation solutions, bringing clarity and consistency across the SNS Community.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Secure Network Services Organization as part of our Automation & Innovation Team.

The role will provide technical direction, envision, document and champion target state associated with developing the right Network Automation solutions across all Network Systems.

Advise leadership on complex solutions for Network Automation

Lead resolutions of complex challenges, developing strategic engineering solutions and maintaining knowledge of innovations.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in architecting and designing solutions that promote reusability, scalability, efficiency and resiliency and possess strong communication skills to articulate the proposed solutions with both technical and business partners

Assist on mitigating risk for the enterprise by proactively addressing capacity problems or system related issues under guidance of Network Services Management, as well as Wells Fargo enterprise standards and policies. Assist teams in technical problem resolution.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the review, resolution and implementation for the most complex technical issues and initiatives related to Automation of large-scale network applications, data systems, voice and other technical products and services
• 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
• Utilizing Ansible orchestration and Python scripting to simplify high volume and/or high-risk tasks for business partners
• Utilize your knowledge and experience working with Nautobot, Netmiko, Nornir, Napalm, APIs, Django and JSON to build modern Automation Solutions
• Evaluate or review queries to extract data, create standard procedures, or perform limited programming to fine tune systems supported
• Research performance trends and recommend process improvements
• Perform complex migrations from development to production, upgrades, installations and configurations
• Make decisions in security and regulatory policies to design and implement foolproof secured network solutions
• Assess changes for risk to production systems and assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported areas
• Identify gaps in current technology processes and recommend changes to assure Service Level Agreements can be supported
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Responsibilities:

Strategic Vision & Application Roadmaps

• Translate the business vision and goals to target state application roadmaps with clear options for any tactical versus strategic trade-offs

• Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans

Architecture Principles and Standards

• Develop technical standards, guidelines, and reference architectures based on industry trends and best practices including microservices and cloud deployments

• Documenting architectural standards, best practices, and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient, and responsive applications

Architecture Diagrams & Documentation

• Author and maintain application use case, sequence, system context, and topology diagrams

• Document integration patterns and options

• Document Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery capabilities for applications