Software Engineering Senior Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager responsible for leading and managing the delivery, maintenance and enhancements of Personal Lending Originations and Servicing Technology capabilities

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
• 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 moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate with, partner with and influence 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 to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering
• Hire, build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ 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:

• 5+ years experience with modern software engineering technologies and tool sets including 3+ years managing a 50+ FTE engineering organization.
• Measurable impacts and a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale technology transformations.
• Ability to effectively drive and lead operational change in an organization with Wells Fargos size, scale and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in building, leading, developing and retaining a high performing team of leaders, strong technical experts and high performing professionals in a cultural environment that achieves results through team member engagement and satisfaction.
• Extensive experience utilizing OKRs framework for focusing organizational efforts and attaining challenging goals.
• Demonstrated ability to manage technology efforts across several lines of business and effectively partner/influence at the senior executive level.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the financial, operational, technical and regulatory drivers impacting a complex and dynamic global technology environment.
• Ability to develop technology strategy, operating model & roadmaps with clear objectives and aligned with business, enterprise and WFT strategies.
• Broad experience across multiple areas of technology including one or more of architecture, infrastructure, application development and engineering.
• Proven experience as a highly effective leader with credibility from demonstrating strong business and technology acumen.
• Highly effective decision-making/critical thinking/problem solving skills with a collaborative and results oriented leadership style.
• Demonstrated ability to consult with key business partners and translate complex, technical concepts so that they are clearly understood in support of sound decisions to meet business objectives.
• Demonstrated experience motivating and influencing groups or individuals across organizational boundaries to gain trust and confidence to make timely decisions.
• Proven experience in establishing a vision, developing the strategy to support the vision, gaining consensus across key functional leadership through effective communication, and driving action towards the vision through the effective management of goals and objectives.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) with ability to communicate at multiple levels ranging from technologists to senior managers and executive leadership.

Job Expectations:

• Lead modernization of PLCC (Private Label Credit Card) platform, reducing risk and increasing customer satisfaction
• Experience in J2EE, ReactJS MFEs, Spring, Spring MVC, Microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes Container orchestration, MongoDB
• Strong Technology tools employing AI based solutions for platform stabilization and Agentic AI workflow implementation
• Work across Merchant relationship Managers, Product Owners and co-suppliers including Digital, Gateway, SDK to implement effective controls automation.