About This Role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director for Core Banking Platform Modernization.
In This Role, You Will
- Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
- Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
- Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
- Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
- Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
- Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
- Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
- Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
- Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
- Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
- Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
- Lead team to achieve objectives
- Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of management or leadership experience
Desired Qualifications:
- BE/BTech or equivalent degree in engineering
- 4+ years of Management experience
- 8+ years of experience with strategic planning in technology
- Strong experience and exposure to Microservices technologies and Azure / PCF cloud
- 8+ years of industry experience
- Excellent decision maker
- Ability to bring clarity and structure amid ambiguity.
- Effective stakeholder communication
- Commercial mindset and ability to drive value with available capacity
- Effective risk management
- Ability to build and drive a highly motivated large team
- Ability to establish a culture of learning and innovation
Job Expectations:
- Define and lead the Core Banking Modernization roadmap in alignment with business strategy. Build scalable, resilient, and high-performing capabilities and solutions that comply with enterprise architecture standards.
- Evaluate and adopt modern technologies - including cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, event-driven design, and AI/ML where relevant.
- Partner with enterprise architects to influence target state architecture and decommission heritage systems responsibly. Translate business objectives into technical delivery milestones and track to measurable outcomes.
- Act as a strategic partner to Product Owners, Business Leaders, and Operations Heads to co-create modern banking experiences. Champion a product-centric, outcome-driven delivery model with end-to-end ownership.
- Manage multi-million-dollar modernization budgets with a focus on ROI, TCO optimization, and value realization. Drive cost-effective engineering practices through automation, open-source adoption, and platform reuse.
- Own platform availability, recoverability, observability, and performance-ensuring world-class uptime and response SLAs.
- Embed risk and cybersecurity controls by design, working with Enterprise Risk, Information Security, and Compliance. Ensure adherence to internal governance, regulatory mandates, and technology policies.
- Enable Agile delivery across scrum teams with strong DevOps and CI/CD practices. Establish clear KPIs across velocity, quality, defect rate, tech debt reduction, incident response, and capacity utilization.
- Lead the team with integrity and inspire a culture of innovation, psychological safety, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
- Accomplish management responsibilities which include sourcing and hiring talented employees, providing ongoing coaching and feedback, recognizing and developing employees. Hire, mentor, and grow diverse technology talent aligned with long-term capability building.
Posting End Date:
12 Aug 2025
- 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.Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants With Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment And Hiring Requirements
- Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
- Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
Reference Number
R-467082
