Technology Release Delivery Senior Manager - Executive Director

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Release Delivery Senior Manager to play a pivotal role in driving end‑to‑end delivery and release execution for our Regulated Messaging platforms, supporting critical services for regulated users. These platforms span enterprise archive, electronic communications surveillance, identity and entitlements, data feed onboarding and migration, and voice recording, forming a key part of our regulatory and operational backbone.

In this role, you will lead the coordination of complex delivery across multiple engineering and product teams, ensuring solutions are delivered in line with SDLC standards, enterprise controls, and regulatory expectations, while maintaining predictability and quality at scale.

You will work in close partnership with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and third‑party vendors, playing a central role in ensuring releases are well‑governed, compliant, and production‑ready.

In this role, you will:

• Manage and develop Release and Delivery Management managers, leading end‑to‑end delivery and release execution across a moderately complex Agile Product Line with dependencies across products and teams
• Lead delivery through strategic decision-making, resolving coordination issues across products to meet deliverables
• Identify and drive strategies for product planning, dependency coordination, and delivery performance improvement, coordinating planning, sequencing, and execution across multiple teams
• Maintain release plans, milestones, delivery artefacts, and manage risks, issues, and dependencies with clear mitigation and escalation
• Collaborate with and influence Product Managers, Technology Managers, Business Service Leaders, and control partners, aligning backlog readiness, delivery sequencing, and supporting audit- and regulator-ready outcomes
• Prepare and present delivery status, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums
• Ensure compliance with Enterprise Software Development Life Cycle and Change Management policies, driving release readiness to meet SDLC, ECM, security, non-functional, and regulatory requirements
• Act as a coach for Agile and Product ways of working, fostering a culture of talent development, continuous improvement, and supporting post-release review and lessons learned
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to meet commitments and align with strategic Technology Delivery objectives

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Technology Delivery, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following:  work experience, training, education
• Management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience delivering or supporting regulated communications platforms, including archive, surveillance, retention, or voice recording.
• Strong working knowledge of SDLC, release management, and technology risk controls.
• Exposure to regulatory frameworks impacting electronic communications (e.g., FCA, PRA, MiFID II, SEC 17a‑4).
• Experience managing vendor‑delivered technology or platform implementations.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills with experience managing delivery risks and dependencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing delivery updates and governance materials.

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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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.