Business Accountability Senior Manager- Technology Risk Delivery Management

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Business Accountability Senior Manager.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and develop teams of specialists and managers to oversee moderate to highly complex activities associated with the development and implementation of business-specific programs, processes, and controls which identify, assess, monitor, measure, and mitigate risk
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement, risk mitigation, and control strategies
• Determine appropriate strategies and actions, interpret and develop policies and procedures, and provide leadership to strategize and execute a variety of programs, services, initiatives, protocols, and deliverables that are moderate to high-risk within scope of responsibility
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of professionals including senior managers
• Engage and influence business heads, regulators, control management, risk, legal, and audit partners to successfully ensure appropriate management of business risk
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of risk management, business controls, or compliance 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:

Delivery Intake & Triage

• Own the centralized delivery intake process for Technology delivery initiatives.
• Assess incoming demand for scope, priority, execution risk, stakeholder impact, and required level of support.
• Route work to the appropriate delivery owners and aligned DRM teams based on risk, execution needs, and program maturity.
• Maintain visibility of intake status, ownership, and next steps through a consistent tracking model.

Portfolio Monitoring & Execution Governance

• Establish common portfolio monitoring routines across supported delivery workstreams.
• Track progress against milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation commitments.
• Use common cadence, thresholds, and governance practices to identify execution gaps early.
• Provide consistent leadership updates on delivery status, risk posture, and items requiring decisions or escalation.
• Coordinate execution across Technology teams, CIO partners, control partners, and delivery stakeholders.
• Align delivery activities to agreed priorities, timelines, ownership, and escalation paths.
• Reduce duplicate touchpoints and handoffs by creating clear engagement expectations and operating routines.
• Ensure work moves through the delivery lifecycle with clear accountability and timely decision-making.

Risk-Based Escalation & Issue Resolution

• Identify at-risk initiatives, execution blockers, ownership gaps, and missed impacts through proactive monitoring.
• Escalate delivery risks using agreed thresholds, leadership forums, and defined escalation pathways.
• Drive resolution of delivery blockers by coordinating accountable owners and decision-makers.
• Support earlier gap detection and stronger remediation completion through consistent tracking and follow-up.

Reporting, Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

• Create standardized progress reporting, delivery dashboards, and risk-based notifications for leadership and aligned teams.
• Communicate delivery status, dependencies, risks, and decisions in a concise and executive-ready manner.
• Facilitate operating cadences, governance reviews, and stakeholder routines for the Delivery Management portfolio.
• Serve as the primary Delivery Management point of contact for intake, orchestration, monitoring, and escalation topics.

Process Standardization & Continuous Improvement

• Standardize delivery playbooks, templates, engagement cadences, and escalation models.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual tracking, duplicate follow-ups, rework, and inconsistent communications.
• Strengthening delivery management practices through automation, improved tooling, and data-driven reporting where feasible.
• Promote a scalable approach that improves visibility, prioritization, accountability, and execution discipline.

Job Expectations:

• 7+ years of strong experience in Delivery Management, Portfolio Management, Program Management, PMO, or Technology Transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex delivery portfolios with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and execution risks.
• Strong governance, reporting, escalation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to design and operate intake, prioritization, monitoring, and escalation frameworks.
• Comfort working with Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Business stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with ability to turn fragmented information into clear execution plans and leadership insights.
• People leadership experience with the ability to set direction, build capability, and drive accountability.
• Create a single, consistent Delivery Management operating model for intake, triage, progress tracking, risk identification, and escalation.
• Provide leadership visibility into delivery health, execution gaps, dependencies, and emerging risks.
• Coordinate execution across Technology stakeholders using standardized communications, reporting, and escalation pathways.
• Move the delivery management function from reactive follow-up to proactive, risk-based monitoring and orchestration.

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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