Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Technology Business Systems Consultant

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in providing technology initiatives for simple to moderately complex business problems within technology business systems
• Contribute to the development of systems and procedures that are both cost effective and meet the relevant business requirements
• Evaluate moderately complex business, operational, or technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of planning and direction conducted to resolve complex business problems
• Partner with business and technology teams to evaluate moderately complex business problems and lead a team to provide comprehensive technological solutions
• Act as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by using quality tools and process definition or improvement to re-engineer technical processes
• Collaborate and consult with business and technology teams to evaluate and resolve issues in order to provide technological solutions and manage both project schedules and deliverables
• Coordinate communication and information flow between business and technology teams

Required Qualifications:

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

Desired Qualifications:

• Lead complex enterprise infrastructure transformation programs from initiation through implementation and closure.
• Develop and manage program roadmaps, milestones, schedules, dependencies, budgets, and delivery plans.
• Drive execution across multiple workstreams to achieve strategic business and technology objectives.
• Own end-to-end project delivery, including planning, execution, risk management, issue resolution, and governance.
• Lead Data Center Modernization and Data Center Exit initiatives across Retail and Commercial Banking platforms.
• Coordinate enterprise-wide migration activities involving application, infrastructure, network, middleware, cloud, and operations teams.
• Drive modernization programs including OpenShift (OCP) migrations, operating system upgrades, platform consolidation, and cloud adoption initiatives.
• Ensure platform scalability, resilience, and operational stability throughout transformation efforts.
• Lead release planning, release governance, and production deployment activities across multiple applications and technology platforms.
• Coordinate release readiness reviews, implementation planning, dependency management, and production cutover activities.
• Govern change control processes and ensure compliance with enterprise change management standards.
• Facilitate risk assessments, implementation approvals, rollback planning, and post-release validations.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, operations, and support teams to ensure successful and low-risk production releases.
• Establish program governance, manage risks, issues, dependencies, and executive reporting.
•  Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, audit, and enterprise governance requirements.
• Provide program health visibility, strategic recommendations, and escalation support for key decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders, technology executives, business stakeholders, application owners, and delivery teams.
• Provide executive-level communications, program health reporting, risk summaries, milestone updates, and strategic recommendations.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering committee reviews, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Build alignment across multiple organizations to drive successful delivery outcomes.
• Plan and execute complex migration, cutover, and implementation activities for mission-critical banking systems.
• Lead production readiness assessments, deployment planning, rollback strategies, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure seamless transitions with minimal downtime and customer impact.
• Drive operational readiness and business continuity planning throughout transformation initiatives.
• Ensure high availability, service continuity, and operational resilience for critical banking platforms.
• Strengthen platform stability, scalability, and performance while reducing operational and technology risk.
• Support long-term modernization, compliance, risk reduction, and cost-optimization objectives.
• Maintain adherence to enterprise security, regulatory, and operational standards.

Job Expectations:

• Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization and transformation programs.
• Strong experience in Release Management, Change Management, Program Governance, Risk Management, and Executive Reporting.
• Experience managing production deployments, cutovers, migrations, and production readiness activities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence senior leadership.
• Experience supporting Banking or Financial Services technology platforms.
• Knowledge of OpenShift (OCP), Cloud Technologies, Infrastructure Modernization, Data Center Migration, and Platform Engineering.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, ITIL, or equivalent certifications.

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.