About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Specialty Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead teams responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and operating foundational data and platform capabilities that support enterprise analytics, reporting, and downstream data consumption. This role provides hands‑on technical leadership and people management while partnering closely with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions aligned to enterprise technology strategy.
In addition to core platform responsibilities, this role leads targeted initiatives focused on delivery metrics optimization and continuous delivery enablement across priority technology domains.

In this role, you will:

Manage, coach, and develop teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers delivering capabilities with moderate complexity and risk using modern engineering practices and technologies
Provide technical and delivery leadership for shared data and platform services, including capabilities supporting data ingestion, transformation, processing, storage, metadata management, and access enablement for analytics and downstream consumption
Lead teams responsible for building, modernizing, and operating foundational platform capabilities that support enterprise reporting, analytics, and application use cases
Ensure solutions adhere to Banking Platform Architecture standards and meet defined non‑functional requirements, including security, scalability, resiliency, and performance, with each release
Partner with architects and senior engineers to align platform solutions with Wells Fargo technology strategies, including application modernization, cloud readiness, and enterprise data strategy
Act as the technical representative for owned platforms and services during cross‑team planning, design reviews, and delivery coordination
Identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of technical roadblocks across code, build, test, deployment, and operational processes impacting shared platform and delivery capabilities
Serve as an escalation partner for scrum masters and delivery teams, helping remove impediments while supporting delivery of moderate‑ to high‑risk commitments
Provide hands‑on technical leadership as needed, including design guidance, code reviews, and solution alignment to architectural direction
Interpret and apply security, stability, scalability, and resiliency requirements, while identifying, managing, and mitigating technology and enterprise risks across platform services
Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners to influence technology requirements, roadmap priorities, and solution design, while advocating agile and DevOps practices
Lead a dedicated engineering team focused on building, piloting, and operationalizing MVPs and POCs to improve continuous delivery capabilities, including P2P and delivery metrics optimization
Guide engineering execution for priority initiatives aligned to enterprise programs, ensuring measurable delivery outcomes, scalability, and organizational impact
Partner with internal platform teams, analytics stakeholders, strategic vendors, and external technology providers to advance delivery metrics, tooling, and automation capabilities
Drive scale‑out of proven delivery and metrics solutions across multiple technology domains, reducing duplicated discovery and accelerating adoption of standardized approaches
Establish and centralize best practices, patterns, and reusable assets to improve delivery efficiency, consistency, and knowledge sharing across teams
Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure delivery commitments are met and aligned with technology and business objectives
Hire, develop, and retain engineering talent; build a strong culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and accountability; and conduct performance management for engineers and managers

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

Experience leading shared platform or foundational data capabilities that support enterprise analytics, reporting, and downstream application use cases
Strong understanding of modern software and data platform architectures, including cloud‑native design, scalability, resiliency, and security considerations
Experience driving continuous delivery improvements, including use of delivery metrics, automation, and engineering best practices to improve throughput and quality
Demonstrated ability to lead MVPs and POCs from concept through operationalization and scale‑out
Experience partnering with product, architecture, and engineering leaders to translate strategy into executable technical roadmaps
Experience influencing and aligning multiple teams across domains to reduce duplication and promote reuse of common patterns and solutions
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern engineering toolchains
Experience working with third‑party technology vendors and strategic partners
Proven ability to lead and develop senior engineers and managers in a complex, matrixed, and regulated enterprise environment

Job Expectations:

Ability to work effectively in a hybrid or matrixed team environment
Willingness to participate in on‑call or escalation support as required by supported platforms or products
Adherence to Wells Fargo policies, risk management, and compliance standards

Posting End Date:

12 Apr 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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