Lead Systems Architect

Job Description

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Systems Architect to support the strategy, design, and implementation of our critical middleware and File transfer technology platforms. In this role, you will be a key leader in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core messaging and file transfer infrastructure, enabling seamless data flow across the enterprise and vendor solutions. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in middleware technologies including Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace and managed file transfer. You will be responsible for shaping the future of our middleware landscape, ensuring it aligns with our business objectives and adheres to industry best practices. This role requires close collaboration with engineering teams, product owners, and stakeholders across the organization

In this role, you will:

Lead the architecture and design of middleware solutions with strong focus on Kafka, IBM MQ and Solace, ensuring the solutions meet business needs, security requirements, and compliance standards. It also includes defining the technical direction, selecting appropriate technologies, and overseeing implementation.

Serve as the design authority on middleware platforms including Kafka, IBM MQ and Solace to architect scalable, reliable and performant solutions.

Develop architecture standards, and patterns to ensure consistency, scalability, and alignment with organization goals. Act as subject matter expert middleware platform to promote messaging and streaming solutions using Kafka, IBM MQ or Solace.

Perform thorough evaluations of middleware platforms for messaging and streaming and File Transfer Solutions to identify best solutions for business needs considering factors like cost, performance, scalability, and security.

Develop and maintain comprehensive architecture specifications for middleware and File Transfer technologies. Socialize the specification with stakeholders to get their buy-in and approval from Architecture Review Board.

Required Qualifications:

-5+ years of Systems Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

-5 + years of experience with architecting and managing enterprise messaging platforms such as Confluent Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace or similar technologies.

-3+ years of architecting and managing experience with File Transfer platforms

-3+ experience with implementing and enforcing governance framework for middleware technologies including the use of tools and techniques for schema management, data lineage.

Desired Qualifications:

-5+ years’ experience with architecting and managing Kafka, IBM MQ, and Solace enterprise platforms

-Certification in Kafka, IBM MQ or Solace platform is highly desired.

-Experience working on Kafka Streams, Kafka connect, Apache Flink, MQ Clustering, Topic Hierarchies, Guaranteed messaging and replay capabilities.

-File Transfer technologies including various protocols (SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS, REST APIs) and technologies (MFT, Axway Secure Transport, SAFET, Connect:Direct).

-Understanding of network topologies, middleware protocols, and security measures, including VPNs and DMZs. 

-Familiar with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Packer for infrastructure automation.

-Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to interact with all levels in the organization.

Job Expectations:

This position is not available for Visa sponsorship

This position requires working from one of the posted locations in a hybrid environment

Posting End Date: 

*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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