Lead Software Engineer

About this role:

• Wells Fargo is seeking a lead software Engineer.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

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

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate effectively, in both written and verbal formats, with senior executive-level leaders.
• 4+ years of Software Engineering Support experience
• 4+ years of scripting and automation experience.
• 2+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following Enterprise Pipeline Tools: uDeploy (Urbancode Deploy), TFS (Team Foundation Server) GIT, Sonar, Fortify, Blackduck.
• 1+ year of Ansible experience
• An industry-standard technology certification.
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization.
• 4+ years of experience in Automation and Continuous Integration-Continuous Development (CI-CD) of Full Circle applications
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Experience with Agile Scrum (Daily Standup, Sprint planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings) and Kanban
• Experience with Container technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, PKS
• Experience with one or more Technology Platforms (Cloud, o/s, etc.,): Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), AWS, Azure, Linux, VMWare.
• Experience with Observability/Monitoring technologies: Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Kafka, ELK, Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Dynatrace, DataDog

Job Expectations:

• Strong experience in application production support
• Banking domain knowledge, preferably in Credit Cards area
• Hands on with application monitoring stack (Logs, Metrics, Events, Traces, Alerts) and ability to visualize and setup end to end observability (Infra and Application Components)
• Good experience in using Industry standard monitoring tools (APPD, Splunk, Thousandeyes, Bifpanda, ELK, APM, Grafana, Prometheus etc.)
• Experience in deploying the components to clous platforms.
• Experience in using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Harness, Gradle and Maven
• Experience in tools Ansible puppet.
• Proficient in one of the Programming languages (Java, .net, Database, Python, Mainframe)
• Experience in working in Agile Methodology
• Knowledge in multiple Infrastructure technologies.
• Familiar with SRE framework and onboarding application on to it.

Posting End Date:
19 Aug 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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