Release Lead - Operational & Enterprise Risk

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Release Leader, who will be responsible for guiding team(s) of Delivery / Release Leads, Scrum Masters, project managers and other support roles to navigate and coordinate all cross-product production releases, while also partnering with product development teams as they adopt, grow, and sustain more efficient ways of working leveraging agile and product practices.

The Release Lead has three main responsibilities; (1) ensures delivery is orchestrated across teams and dependent products (2) continuous improvement across the Product Line and Product and (3) technical release activities related to SDLC, ECM and CI/CD.

They partner with product teams to ensure appropriate planning for software release across the product (and/or multiple products) while creating a culture of continuous learning, skill growth, and adoption of new ways of working. This includes guiding team to meeting business objectives and execute against product strategies while partnering to work through dependencies, impediments, and risks up, down and across the product line regarding changes that may introduce risk into the system.  This role will be expected to help to create trusted relationships across all levels so that the release team, scrum masters, product owners and development teams can successfully coordinate across dependencies and implement new code effectively together, evolving collaborative release planning into a sustainable state.

In this role, you will:

• Provide thought leadership to maintain customer centricity and facilitates activities that foster continuous improvement.
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals, program or product managers and stakeholders to enhance transparency, resolve issues, and foster team empowerment; serves as an advisor to leadership and a peer mentor on technical change management policies.
• Plan and facilitate cross-product / internal product quarterly planning sessions to promote understanding of prioritized needs, estimate which deliverables must be achieved in the same cycle and potential impacts to live code across the technology eco-system.
• Support the product line management team and product team in connecting the activities needed to bring the working software into production, by holding collaborative and inclusive conversations and release mapping.
• Ensure transparency and clarity across the product on the synchronization of release events, including but not limited to the iterative development of feature roadmap(s), to help the team recognize potential dependencies and conflicts.
• Partners with product manager and technology groups to mitigate risk by holding a view of the full technology eco-system (e.g., infrastructure and 3rd party dependencies, financial implications of delays, hazards of implementations occurring ‘off-schedule’, impacts of production errors, etc.,)
• Communicate frequently with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
• Assists all delivery / release roles (where applicable) in understanding and adhering to all Enterprise requirements required for software implementation.
• Assists in ensuring compliance, SDLC and ECM/change management efforts are understood and adopted across the Product.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of Technical Project Management experience
• 4+ years of Requirement traceability, Release planning, and management experience in Agile SDLC environment.
• Excellent Communication skills with multiple levels of leadership
• Stakeholder Relationship Management

Desired Qualifications:

• Tool experience in Jira, Confluence and Service Now
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) experience

Job Expectations:

• The Release Lead position is responsible for the release management lifecycle, including scheduling, planning, collaborating, facilitating, and overall management of releases for multiple applications across various product areas for the business teams.
• Responsible for managing and enforcing release best practices, process and procedures for SDLC cycle.
• Responsible for cross-product technical dependency management.
• Understand technical architecture of cross-product integrations/dependencies and collaborate with technical architects for updating technical architecture documentation
• Configuration Management
• Collaborate closely with cross functional teams such as product management, software development, engineering to ensure releases are supported for on time and high level of quality
• Support the product line management team and product team in connecting the activities needed to bring the working software into production, by holding collaborative and inclusive conversations and release mapping.
• Ensure transparency and clarity across the product on the synchronization of release events, including but not limited to the iterative development of feature roadmap(s), to help the team recognize potential dependencies and conflicts.
• Partners with product manager and technology groups to mitigate risk by holding a view of the full technology eco-system (e.g., infrastructure and 3rd party dependencies, financial implications of delays, hazards of implementations occurring ‘off-schedule’, impacts of production errors, etc.,)
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Must be able to work on-site at any of the listed locations
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Job Posting Locations:

300 S Brevard St., CHARLOTTE, North Carolina 28202

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$84,000.00 - $149,400.00

Posting End Date:

8 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.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.