EFT Platform Services, Cloud and Infrastructure Principal Engineer

**About this role:** Wells Fargo is seeking a Cloud and Infrastructure Principal Engineer to lead complex cloud modernization and platform engineering initiatives from strategy through execution. The Cloud Enablement team, within the Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering organization, accelerates cloud adoption across the EFT portfolio by providing expert consulting, solution design, engineering support, and reusable enablement assets. The team designs, builds, and optimizes cloud infrastructure while developing tools, training, documentation, and best practices that empower developers to build, deploy, and operate cloud\-native applications with confidence. Through standardization, automation, and knowledge sharing, the team strengthens a “you build it, you run it” operating model and helps reduce friction for application teams. This role provides deep expertise in public cloud, Infrastructure\-as\-Code (IaC), and automation across the EFT portfolio and serves as a key engineering position driving modernization, innovation, and operational excellence. Principal Engineers guide cloud adoption by advising on architecture, reusable solution patterns, cross\-functional process alignment, and automation strategy. They translate complex initiatives into actionable engineering work, mentor contractors and junior team members, and enable scalable delivery through strong technical leadership and practical execution. This role is ideal for a hands\-on engineering leader who understands infrastructure complexity and is motivated to remove barriers through scalable automation, practical solutions, and a developer\-focused approach. **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\-dep