Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Capital Markets Reference Data

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer to join our Corporate and Investment Banking Technology team. This strategic role centers on modernizing and expanding our Reference Data Platform, a critical application supporting Capital Markets business & trading. You will lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance systems for ingesting, mastering, and distributing financial instruments reference data-requiring deep hands-on expertise in scalable data processing and distributed systems.
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
• 5+ years designing and implementing distributed systems using Java with expertise in memory management, concurrency, JMS, and native I/O
• 3+ years of Java 11+ (Java 17+ preferred), including modern features like Streams API, records, and enhanced concurrency
• 3+ years of implementing microservices, preferably using Spring ecosystem (Boot, Batch and/or Data)
• 3+ years of SQL experience
• 2+ years of experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka, Solace etc

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building cloud-ready solutions with Azure, GCP or OpenShift
• Experience developing data APIs exposed via API gateways
• Domain expertise in Financial Instrument Reference Data including integration with market data vendors
• Proven track record in developing low-latency, high-reliability applications for financial services or trading platforms
• Experience using distributed caching technologies (Apache Ignite, Redis)
• Experience with Python for data transformation, enrichment, and data mastering workflows
• Experience implementing rule-based data mastering systems
• Front-end development experience with React
• Strong foundation in object-oriented analysis and design, algorithms, and data structures
• Excellent analytical and communication skills

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule (3 days/week in-office)

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