Software Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead engineering delivery within the Retail Services ecosystem—an environment characterized by high transaction volumes, deep upstream and downstream integrations, and stringent regulatory requirements.

This role requires a strong engineering leader who can operate at the intersection of system reliability, platform modernization, and people leadership. You will provide end-to-end ownership of engineering execution, ensuring resilience, scalability, and disciplined evolution of critical systems while navigating concurrent modernization initiatives and ongoing production demands.

The ideal candidate brings a hands-on leadership approach, champions an AI-first engineering mindset, and fosters a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and operational excellence. You will be responsible for building high-performing teams, strengthening engineering capabilities, and enabling sustainable delivery at scale in a complex, mission-critical environment.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
• 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 low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate and consult with the 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 for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
• Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products

Required Qualifications:

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

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong experience leading engineering teams in high-scale, distributed, and highly regulated environments (e.g., banking, financial services, or similar domains)
• Java Full stack Development Experience
• Demonstrated ability to drive modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, microservices architecture, and legacy transformation
• Experience with AI-assisted development practices and evangelizing AI-first engineering culture (e.g., GitHub Copilot, automation, intelligent tooling)
• Proven track record of improving system reliability, observability, and production stability in complex ecosystems
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and SRE principles
• Experience managing large-scale transactional systems and integration-heavy platforms
• Ability to influence and collaborate across architecture, product, and enterprise technology teams
• Strong knowledge of security, regulatory compliance, and risk management frameworks in enterprise environments
• Excellent people leadership skills, with a focus on coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development
• Experience driving engineering productivity through automation, tooling, and process improvements
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to executive and non-technical stakeholders

Job Expectations:

• Lead engineering execution for Retail Services applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, automation, and data-driven decision-making
• Balance business-as-usual (BAU) priorities with strategic transformation initiatives such as cloud migration and platform modernization
• Establish and enforce engineering governance, standards, and best practices across the team
• Partner closely with product, architecture, and enterprise technology teams to align on roadmap priorities and technical direction
• Proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks, production issues, and scalability challenges
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization
• Enable teams to operate effectively in a highly regulated environment with strong focus on compliance, audit readiness, and secure development practices
• Drive talent strategy, including hiring, retention, upskilling, and career progression for engineers and emerging leaders
• Continuously improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency through tooling and process innovation

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.

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