Senior Specialty Software Engineer (Req #002061)

At Wells Fargo, we want to satisfy our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially. We're looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do.
Help us build a better Wells Fargo. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.
Wells Fargo Technology sets IT strategy; enhances the design, development, and operations of our systems; optimizes the Wells Fargo infrastructure footprint; provides information security; and enables continuous banking access through in-store, online, ATM, and other channels to Wells Fargo's more than 70 million global customers.
Wells Fargo Bank N.A. seeks a Lead Software Engineer in Charlotte, NC.
Job Role and Responsibility:
Design, develop, and implement near real-time data streams, ingesting and enriching business and operational data from various sources across the organization as part of enterprise observability platform. Contribute to large scale planning of strategies. Act as a Key contributor to the development of products that provide full stack observability including application monitoring, logging, alerting, and visualization. Responsible for delivering innovative, scalable, stable, and secure products that provide deep business insight, operational insight, and predictive analysis. Drive complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact. Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors. Assist in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives. Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals. Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff. Subject matter expertise for distributed tracing, logging, and metric visualization using various Observability tools and frameworks. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals. Telecommuting is permitted up to 2 days a week. Position must appear in person to the location listed as the work address.
Travel required: None.
Required Qualifications:
Minimum education required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology or related technical field.
Amount and type of experience required: 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a related role involving software development and engineering experience.
Specific skills required:

• 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a related role involving software development and engineering experience.
• 5 years of experience with Observability products such as Elastic or Appdynamics or Splunk Observability Cloud etc.,
• 2 years of shell scripting and automation experience
• Experience building solutions involving logs, metrics, and traces
• Experience in automating the observability platform installation, configuration and management using Ansible or Puppet.

Posting End Date:
22 Apr 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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