Senior Lead Technology Resiliency Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Technology Resiliency Engineer

We are building a team of senior technology resiliency engineers to define and shape the future of how technology operates at scale within a global financial institution. This role is responsible for designing, influencing, and embedding enterprise‑wide resiliency strategies across platforms, applications, infrastructure, and operating models.

The Senior Technology Resiliency Engineer will partner closely with engineering, architecture, risk, cyber security, operations, and business leadership to ensure critical services are resilient by design, aligned to regulatory expectations, and capable of operating through severe but plausible disruption scenarios.

This role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence at VP/MD level—bridging engineering reality with strategic intent.

In this role, you will:

Key Responsibilities
 

Enterprise Resiliency Strategy & Design

• Define and evolve the enterprise technology resiliency strategy, aligned to business critical services, regulatory expectations, and long‑term technology roadmaps
• Establish resiliency design principles and patterns for cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem platforms (e.g., multi‑region, multi‑AZ, active/active, degradation strategies)
• Influence architecture decisions to ensure resiliency, recoverability, and operability are built in from inception—not retrofitted
• Partner with enterprise and domain architects to embed resiliency requirements into standards, reference architectures, and engineering practices
   

Critical Services & Operational Resilience

• Support identification and mapping of Important Business Services and underpinning technology dependencies
• Translate business impact tolerances into actionable technology recovery objectives (RTO, RPO, MTO)
• Assess end‑to‑end service resilience, identifying single points of failure across applications, data, infrastructure, vendors, and people
• Drive remediation strategies for material resiliency gaps, balancing risk reduction with real‑world delivery constraints
   

Engineering & Platform Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation
• Review major platform and system designs from a resiliency and operability perspective
• Promote modern resiliency practices such as:
  • Chaos engineering and failure injection
  • Automation‑first recovery
  • Observability and service‑level indicators
  • Immutable infrastructure and infrastructure‑as‑code
• Guide the adoption of resiliency tooling and metrics at scale
   

Incident Preparedness, Testing & Learning

• Shape the firm’s approach to resilience testing, including scenario‑based testing, disaster recovery exercises, and severe‑but‑plausible events
• Design and participate in enterprise simulation exercises involving technology and business stakeholders
• Drive a culture of continuous learning through post‑incident analysis focused on systemic improvement rather than blame
• Ensure lessons learned feed directly into architecture, standards, and engineering practices
   

Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment

• Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit to ensure resiliency practices meet internal policy and external regulatory expectations
• Contribute to regulatory responses, exams, and remediation programs related to operational and technology resilience
• Help define meaningful, decision‑useful resiliency metrics and management reporting
• Act as a senior point of expertise during regulatory discussions related to technology resilience
   

Leadership & Influence

• Serve as a subject‑matter leader within the resiliency engineering community
• Mentor junior engineers and help build resiliency engineering as a distinct capability
• Influence senior technology leadership by articulating complex technical risk in clear business terms
• Contribute to the long‑term evolution of the bank’s technology operating model

Required Qualifications:

Technical & Domain Expertise

• 7+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of experience in large‑scale technology engineering, architecture, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
• 7 plus years Proven experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems in complex enterprise environments
• 7+ years' experience with:
  • Cloud and hybrid architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent)
  • Disaster recovery and availability patterns
  • Data replication and consistency models
  • Observability, monitoring, and incident management
• 7+ years' experience influencing architecture and design decisions at scale

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in banking, capital markets, or other highly regulated industries
• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or large‑scale production operations
• Experience with chaos engineering or large‑scale resilience testing
• Familiarity with service management, ITIL, or modern operating model transformations
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Job Expectations:

Resiliency & Risk Experience

• Hands‑on experience with operational resilience, technology resilience, DR, or business continuity in regulated environments
• Ability to translate business impact into technical recovery strategies
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations related to technology and operational resilience (e.g., US, UK, EU financial regulators)

Leadership & Communication

• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical and executive audiences
• Experience operating in highly matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders
• Credibility to challenge technology decisions constructively and pragmatically
• Track record of driving change through influence rather than authority

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Resiliency is designed in, not discovered during incidents
• Critical services have clear, tested, and realistic recovery strategies
• Engineering teams view resiliency as an enabler of velocity, not a compliance exercise
• Senior leaders have confidence in the firm’s ability to withstand disruption
• Regulatory discussions shift from assurance‑driven to strategy‑driven conversations

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

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:

*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

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Drug and Alcohol Policy

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