Lead Specialty Software Engineer

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in Technology as part of Wealth and Investment Management Technology. The Wealth and Investment Management Platform team provides support for Wealth and Investment Management line of business applications. This includes Account Opening and Maintenance, Payables and Receivables, clearance/settlement Commercial Card, Information Reporting, and Pricing Tools, as well as, Enterprise payment applications, including ACH, Wires, and Secure Transmission applications. The team is accountable for the availability, stability, resiliency and operational health of all platforms aligned with TMPS. The team partner with all teams in Wells Fargo including those in business operations to ensure all our customer transactions and associated technologies

are monitored for operational health, performance, capacity and availability. This team plays a key role in enabling and driving forward the agile acceleration and DevOps changes currently underway. Team members within this function will ensure availability is paramount, including our critical obligation of protecting our customer’s information. The Lead Specialty Software Engineer will deliver enterprise capabilities that improve overall availability of 150+ applications across the Wealth and Investment business lines.

We are looking for an engineer who enjoys and thrives on solving complex problems through innovation impacting change at scale. You will join an elite team of engineers driving Technology's transformation by introducing enterprise capabilities and products, launching new platforms, building tools, automating away complex issues, and integrate with the latest technology. The team will leverage experience as software engineers and systems engineers/administrators and work closely with the rest of the WIM development and architecture teams.

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In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
• Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
• Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies
• Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
• Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of application production support experience – expertise in troubleshooting and resolving major incidents
• 3+years of Banking and Financial industry experience.
• 3+ years of experience with building, deploying, and securing cloud container platforms
• 2+ years of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience – Improve system resiliency and stability, Automate CI/CD pipelines (Harness), Blue/Green deployments, expertise in Auto scaling and failover mechanisms
• 2+ years of experience with database technologies such as MongoDB, Basic SQL,
• Oracle, Postgres SQL
• 2+ years of experience with Observability tools such as AppDynamics (equivalent APM), Prometheus, Splunk, Netcool, Autosys, Sitescope, Grafana. Expertise in creating real-time dashboards using Splunk & Grafana
• 1+ years of experience with messaging & API technologies such as Kafka, Apigee.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with system administration across multiple platforms.
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization
• Experience in driving system stability through problem management and ability to create platform stability periodic metrics
• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex material to a diverse audience
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms: OpenShift Container Platform, Azure, AWS,
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or VMware Tanzu App Service (TAS)
• Experience utilizing Cloud Infrastructure with tools and applications such as AWS Cloud
• Formation Templates, Spinnaker and Terraform

Job Expectations:

• Flexibility to work in a 24/7 environment, including weekends and holidays
• Position offers a hybrid work schedule

Locations:

• 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina 28262-8522

Posting End Date: 

1 May 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.

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