Software Engineering Senior Manager

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager in Technology as part of Wealth Investment Management Technology's (WIMT) engineering and transformation office. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com .
The Software Engineering Senior Manager will support the WIMT Platform organization which is responsible and accountable for the availability, stability, performance, capacity and general operational health of all Technology platforms, systems and applications that provide modern financial services and digital experiences to WIM customers. As part of the ongoing Technology Transformation initiative, WIMT Platform also plays an important role in supporting Cloud transition and overall agility of changes.
In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
• Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
• Interpret, develop and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate with, partner with and influence Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
• Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering
• Hire, build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of application production support or SRE experience
• Proven experience managing engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and career development
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern observability practices (logs, metrics, traces, alerting)
• Deep familiarity with SRE principles: reducing toil, improving reliability, automating operations, and driving post-incident reviews
• Experience managing platform operations, including resource allocation, vendor interaction, and risk mitigation
• Experience implementing and evolving monitoring, alerting, and analytics solutions to meet business and technical needs
• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Engineering Managers
• Hands on experience in monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Thousand Eyes etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including executive storytelling and stakeholder engagement

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work on-site at posted location
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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.
$159,000.00 - $254,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
22 Jul 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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