Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Data Architect— a hands-on technologist who will shape modern data architecture across cloud and on-prem environments in a large-scale banking ecosystem. This role designs scalable patterns for application, analytics, workflow, and AI-enabled workloads while guiding the evolution of legacy systems into secure, resilient, and future-ready platforms. The ideal candidate balances strategy, design, and hands-on execution—proving concepts through code, solving complex data challenges, and influencing senior technologists. You will work across diverse systems, define architectural patterns, and enable teams to modernize data environments with practical, AI-aware solutions.

This role requires deep expertise in distributed data systems, application and workflow integration, and analytic platforms, along with the ability to translate current-state constraints into forward-looking architectures. Experience using both traditional development and AI-ass...