Senior Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer

In this role, you will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

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

Key Responsibilities

Tableau Development & Optimization

• Design and develop high‑performance Tableau dashboards optimized for scale, concurrency, and responsiveness
• Deeply optimize Tableau workbooks, extracts, data sources, filters, and calculations
• Apply advanced Tableau performance techniques including:
  • Extract vs live optimization
  • Context filters, LOD expressions, table calcs tuning
  • Workbook, dashboard, and query performance analysis

Performance Monitoring & Analysis

• Analyze and correlate Tableau performance metrics including:
  • Query execution time
  • Workbook load time
  • Extract refresh duration
  • User concurrency and resource utilization
• Pull and synthesize performance statistics from observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana
• Build performance dashboards and reports that:
  • Track trends over time
  • Identify regressions and hotspots
  • Support root‑cause analysis

Cross‑Platform Collaboration

• Partner with data engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams to diagnose performance issues across the stack
• Connect Tableau performance insights to:
  • Data platform behavior
  • Query design and data models
  • Infrastructure and compute constraints
• Recommend and drive remediation actions based on evidence and metrics

Governance & Standards

• Establish and enforce Tableau performance and design standards
• Contribute to best practices for:
  • Certified data sources
  • Scalable dashboard design
  • Self‑service analytics with guardrails
• Document performance findings, tuning approaches, and standards for broader adoption

Required Skills & Experience

Tableau Expertise

• Extensive hands‑on experience with:
  • Tableau Desktop
  • Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud
• Proven track record in performance tuning enterprise‑scale Tableau environments
• Strong experience analyzing Tableau logs, performance recordings, and admin views

Performance & Observability

• Experience analyzing metrics and logs from Grafana or similar monitoring platforms
• Ability to pull together insights from multiple sources to tell a coherent performance story
• Experience defining and tracking SLAs / SLOs for analytics performance

Data & Query Skills

• Advanced SQL skills with a strong focus on query optimization
• Solid understanding of:
  • Data modeling for analytics
  • Impact of data volume, granularity, and joins on performance

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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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.