Software Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to provide leadership for an application delivery team. This Manager will lead a high-performing software engineering team and will be responsible for overseeing the development of software solutions and ensuring alignment with strategic business and product objectives. This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and product management capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
• Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
• Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate and consult with the Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
• Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
• Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of Leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience and 2+ years of Leadership experience
• Strong experience insoftware development frameworks, cloud-native architectures, and platform engineering.
• Proficiency inJava , Python, and experience withSpring Boot, .NET Core, or equivalent frameworks.
• Deep understanding ofCI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
• Hands-on experience withGitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Backstage, or similar DevTools.
• Strong grasp ofperformance optimization, observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), and developer workflow automation.
• Experience withdeveloper portals, self-service platforms, and inner-source adoption.
• Knowledge ofAI-powered developer tools, GitHub Copilot, or generative AI-based coding assistance.
• Exposure tomulti-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and security best practices (OWASP, SAST, DAST).

Job Expectations:

• Technical Leadership & Strategy:
• Define thevision, roadmap, and strategyfor Engineering Frameworks, Utilities, and Developer Tools & Environments.
• Driveadoption of modern engineering frameworksand establish coding standards, best practices, and reusable components.
• Lead thedesign and implementationof scalable development tools that improvedeveloper efficiency and experience.
• Oversee the migration and modernization oflegacy frameworks and environments.

• Engineering Frameworks & Utilities:
• Develop and maintaincore engineering frameworksfor backend, frontend, and cloud-native development.
• Implementdomain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architectures, and microservices patterns.
• Ensureperformance, security, observability, and compliancein engineering frameworks.
• Drive automation incode generation, service scaffolding, and dependency management.

• Developer Tools & Environments:
• Lead the development ofcloud-based IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, local dev environments, and code quality tools.
• Own theengineering productivity platform, includingbuild acceleration, test automation, and debugging tools.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to integrateDevSecOpspractices into developer environments.
• Optimizeinner-loop development workflowsto reduce friction and enhance developer experience.

• Cross-Team Collaboration & Enablement:
• Partner withProduct, Architecture, SRE, Security, and Developer Experience teamsto drive engineering excellence.
• Advocate forengineering best practices,tool adoption, anddeveloper education initiatives.
• Work closely with engineering leadership to alignplatform investments with business priorities.

• People Leadership & Execution:
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team ofhigh-performing engineers and technical leads.
• Foster a culture ofinnovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Manage project execution, ensuringtimely delivery and high-quality outcomes.

• Leadership & Collaboration:
• Proven track record ofleading engineering teamsand delivering platform-level solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability todrive adoption of engineering frameworks and tools.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a data-driven approach tomeasuring developer productivity

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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.

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