Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a multinational financial services company operating across banking and related financial products. Its hiring landscape includes opportunities for early-career professionals, experienced specialists, and leaders, with an emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and an inclusive workplace culture. The company also highlights development programs designed to support career progression across its broad workforce.

Principal Data and Analytics Architect – Core Banking Modernization (Charlotte Hybrid)

Lead enterprise architecture for Wells Fargo’s multi-year Core Banking Modernization program. Shape target-state architecture, investment priorities, and migration execution across the transformation.

Description

  • Own the architecture strategy for the bank’s Core Banking Modernization program
  • Shape and advance the end-to-end architecture vision for a transformation roadmap spanning more than three years
  • Provide hands-on architectural leadership across active initiatives and transition work
  • Collaborate with senior business leaders, technology executives, and domain architects to connect business outcomes, platform strategy, and delivery
  • Establish architectural direction and oversee design governance
  • Guide vendor selection and platform adoption
  • Maintain architectural consistency across domains, integrations, and migration programs
  • Counsel senior leaders on architecture frameworks and delivery approaches for complex business and technology needs
  • Lead strategic responses to complex enterprise challenges
  • Document current-state, target-state, and transition architectures
  • Create strategic plans covering investment priorities and cutover execution
  • Act as a domain architecture subject-matter advisor to leadership
  • Direct investment toward target technologies while evaluating spend, total cost of ownership, and return on investment
  • Verify that applications follow Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies, and industry practices
  • Select, establish, and apply strategic architecture tools and frameworks
  • Track industry practices and emerging technologies, recommending relevant innovations
  • Shape internal and vendor technology roadmaps

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of architecture experience, or equivalent experience demonstrated through work, training, military service, or education
  • At least 5 years of experience developing data strategy
  • Practical knowledge of the customer data domain
  • Experience with cloud-based operational and analytical data platforms
  • Experience spanning cloud and data architecture, domain-driven design, architecture frameworks, product thinking, and Agile delivery
  • Experience designing strategic data or financial systems architecture in financial services
  • Strong negotiation, influencing, and partnership-building skills
  • Ability to mentor fellow architects
  • Ability to collaborate with platform engineering and architecture teams on cross-domain solutions
  • This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
  • Ability to travel up to 10%

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life, critical illness, and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Discount and savings programs
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement
  • Potential eligibility for incentive opportunities

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