Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Middleware Solutioning

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer who serves as a strategic liaison between Line of Business (LOB) application teams and the enterprise platform organization. This role is accountable for driving end-to-end infrastructure solution design, with a strong emphasis on middleware platforms to ensure application integration, scalability, and reliability across enterprise systems.

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This position requires a balance of solutioning leadership and execution credibility. The individual will lead complex, cross-functional solutioning efforts while bringing practical experience from hands-on delivery to ensure designs are actionable, efficient, and aligned to real-world execution processes.

In this role, you will:

• Lead solution design engagements across LOB application teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise infrastructure standards and approved products
• Drive end-to-end solution ownership, from initial design through onboarding, implementation alignment, and operational readiness
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional solutioning sessions with stakeholders including Application Development, CTO Architecture, WIMT Architecture, Security, Network, Middleware, and Database teams
• Apply practical execution experience to ensure solutions are realistic, implementable, and aligned to existing delivery processes
• Identify and resolve design gaps, conflicting requirements, and cross-team dependencies
• Exercise judgment in when to drive intervention vs. when to leverage established processes, ensuring efficient and scalable delivery
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure solution designs transition cleanly into execution
• Identify opportunities to improve execution processes, reduce friction, and streamline delivery based on hands-on experience
• Reinforce adoption of enterprise design patterns and infrastructure standards
• Assess operational readiness including monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and incident response integration
• Support lifecycle management strategy by aligning solutions to enterprise currency, compliance, and modernization objectives
• Act as a connector across organizations, improving coordination, decision-making, and overall solution quality

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure domains including compute, storage, networking, cloud, security, and middleware platforms (e.g., application servers, messaging systems, API gateways)
• 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders
• 5+ years of experience in both solution design and hands-on execution/delivery of infrastructure solutions

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong expertise in middleware technologies such as application servers, messaging platforms (Kafka, MQ), API gateways, and integration frameworks
• Deep understanding of middleware design patterns including asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, and service-to-service communication
• Experience designing and supporting middleware solutions in large-scale, regulated environments
• Familiarity with middleware performance tuning, scalability strategies, and fault tolerance mechanisms
• Strong understanding of enterprise delivery processes and operating models
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading design discussions and resolving ambiguity
• Prior hands-on experience delivering infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments
• Deep familiarity with infrastructure delivery lifecycle (design, build, deploy, operate)
• Ability to assess when to escalate issues vs. allow processes to execute as designed
• Experience translating architectural intent into executable, supportable solutions
• Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience exploring or applying AI, automation, or intelligent tooling in engineering workflows
• Ability to identify opportunities where AI can improve solution design, analysis, documentation, or operational efficiency
• Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate problem-solving, decision-making, and delivery outcomes
• Mindset oriented toward continuous learning, experimentation, and adoption of emerging technologies

Job Expectations:

• Position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting Location:

• 300 South Brevard Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
• 2801 Market Street, F & L Bldg. Saint Louis, Missouri

NC- Charlotte Pay Range: $119,000 – $187,000 Annually

MO- St. Louis Pay Range: $119,000 – $187,000 Annually

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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