Software Engineering Senior Manager-AI

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager for Core Banking Platform Modernization.
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:

• BE/BTech or equivalent degree in engineering
• 3+ years of Management experience
• 6+ years of experience with strategic planning in technology
• Strong experience and exposure to Microservices technologies and Azure / PCF cloud
• 6+ 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.
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