Principal Engineer – Analytics, Reporting & BI Cybersecurity

About the position

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled and strategic Principal Engineer to lead the Analytics, Reporting, and Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives for our Cybersecurity organization. This role will be responsible for shaping and executing the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of analytics and BI solutions that provide actionable insights into our cybersecurity landscape. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technologist with strong experience in cloud-based data platforms, visualization tools, and reporting frameworks, combined with a deep understanding of cybersecurity data domains.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical vision and architecture for analytics, BI, and reporting across Cybersecurity.
• Drive the roadmap for BI modernization with a focus on scalability, performance, and self-service capabilities.
• Partner with cybersecurity, data, and engineering leaders to align reporting solutions with business priorities.
• Lead design, development, and deployment of secure, scalable, and real-time reporting solutions.
• Build reusable patterns, templates, and frameworks to standardize reporting and data visualization.
• Develop and lead proof-of-concepts (PoCs) to validate emerging technologies or solutions.
• Provide technical guidance on data architecture, data models, and analytics workflows.
• Enforce data quality, lineage, and governance standards in BI platforms.
• Enable self-service BI and empower users while ensuring compliance with security and data access policies.
• Mentor engineers across cybersecurity, data engineering, and BI teams.
• Set engineering best practices for coding, testing, and deploying reporting pipelines and dashboards.
• Drive a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Hands on experience in data engineering, BI, or analytics, including at least 3+ years in a lead or principal role.
• Proven track record architecting and delivering enterprise-grade BI and reporting solutions in a cybersecurity or regulated industry.
• Expertise in Cloud platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure).
• Expertise and hands on skills with BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, ThoughtSpot).
• Deep experience with Big data processing (e.g., BigQuery, Spark, SQL, Python).
• Solid skills in data modeling, ETL frameworks, and data orchestration pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and access control in sensitive environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands-on experience with security log data, cyber threat intelligence, or compliance reporting is a plus.
• Experience in cybersecurity analytics use cases (e.g., alert enrichment, risk scoring, posture reporting).
• Familiarity with natural language querying, AI-powered summarization, or augmented BI.
• Exposure to data mesh, data fabric, or federated data architectures.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement