Principal Application Network Architect
| Company | Wells Fargo |
|---|---|
| Location | San Antonio, TX, USA, Chandler, AZ, USA, Irving, TX, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
- 7+ years of infrastructure architecture experience in modernizing technology infrastructure landscape
- 3+ years of experience researching new technologies, performing proof-of-concepts, and recommending solutions.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a subject matter expert to the organization for application network infrastructure architecture.
- 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.
- 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.
- Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization.
- Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
- Development and Maintenance of architecture solutions such as reference architecture, white paper, product strategy, product to services roadmap.
- Advocate and define architectural vision for Wells Fargo’s application network environment.
- Design, configure and implement fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining application network services using infrastructure as a code solution integrated with common control planes.
- Provides leadership and mentoring to Architects and engineers to grow architecture talent.
- Lead strategic planning and architectural planning for infrastructure technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Well versed in modern networking constructs such as container networking interfaces, service mesh, reverse proxy to support api and web applications, zero trust, end to end application observability and cloud compute.
- Demonstrable experience in Data Center migration and related tooling.
- Networking specific certifications, e.g. OpenShift, AWS, GCP, Azure
- Hands on knowledge to with Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, SPIFFE, SPIRE and OPA, OpenShift Container Platform, Application logging and tracing, and observability.
- Hands on knowledge with layer 7 authorization and micro-segmentation to support application security
- Familiar and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code via CI/CD and automation tools like Github Actions, Jenkins, Harness CD
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience working in an agile, product-oriented structure.
- Ability to interact with all levels with the organization.
- Strong comprehension within the network, compute and storage domains.