Technology Director

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director .

This role will lead the modernization and transformation of critical Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) technology platforms within Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT).

This leader will oversee multiple engineering teams responsible for delivering modern, AI-enabled platforms that support regulatory, risk management, testing, monitoring, and audit capabilities across the enterprise. The role will drive transformation from legacy and vendor-centric solutions to strategic platforms built on common technologies, reusable services, shared data capabilities, and intelligent automation.

The successful candidate will combine strong technology leadership, organizational influence, delivery excellence, and modern engineering expertise to accelerate the adoption of cloud-native platforms, Agentic AI solutions, and enterprise-wide engineering standards.

In this role, you will:

• Lead engineering teams responsible for the modernization of GRC platforms.
• Deliver strategic technology roadmaps aligned with enterprise risk, compliance, and regulatory priorities.
• Drive adoption of a common technology strategy centered on React, Java-based microservices, shared data capabilities, and Python-based AI services.
• Partner with architecture, product, risk, audit, compliance, and business leaders to define and execute multi-year modernization initiatives.
• Lead the development of reusable platform capabilities, shared services, common data assets, and enterprise integration frameworks.
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled capabilities including Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), workflow automation, and knowledge-centric solutions.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, resiliency, scalability, auditability, data governance, and operational excellence.
• Establish engineering best practices across software development, testing, DevSecOps, observability, and platform operations.
• Manage technology budgets, resource planning, vendor engagement, and execution priorities.
• Develop high-performing engineering organizations through recruitment, mentoring, coaching, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate and influence senior leaders across technology, risk, compliance, audit, and operations functions.
• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience
• 10+ years of  experience leading software engineering organizations.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale technology modernization or platform transformation programs.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology initiatives involving multiple products, teams, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing high-performing Agile engineering teams.

Desired Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) , Testing & Monitoring, Audit, Risk Management, or other regulated business functions.
• Experience modernizing platforms built on Archer, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise products.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including React, Java, Spring Boot, APIs, microservices, cloud-native platforms, and DevSecOps.
• Experience delivering enterprise Data and AI solutions, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG architectures, vector databases, and intelligent workflow automation.
• Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, semantic technologies, and enterprise knowledge management architectures.
• Experience establishing reusable platform capabilities, shared services, and enterprise data solutions.
• Strong understanding of data governance, cybersecurity, privacy, audit, compliance, and operational risk requirements.
• Proven ability to balance strategic technology investments with business outcomes and delivery commitments.
• Experience managing complex portfolios, budgets, resource planning, and technology vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated success developing engineering talent and building strong leadership teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Financial services experience or experience operating within highly regulated environments preferred.

Job Expectations

• Lead the execution of technology transformation initiatives across GRC, Testing & Monitoring, and Audit platforms.
• Drive simplification and standardization of technologies, platforms, data assets, and engineering practices.
• Build common capabilities that can be reused across multiple risk and control management domains.
• Partner with Principal Engineers and Architects to ensure architectural consistency and strategic alignment across modernization programs.
• Accelerate adoption of AI-driven capabilities that improve operational efficiency, control effectiveness, risk management, and user experience.
• Establish measurable outcomes tied to technology modernization, platform reuse, delivery efficiency, resiliency, and business value.
• Ensure engineering teams deliver secure, stable, scalable, and compliant technology solutions.
• Promote a culture of ownership, innovation, transparency, and continuous learning.
• Develop future technology leaders and strengthen the organization's engineering capabilities.
• Represent technology leadership in strategic planning, governance forums, regulatory discussions, and executive reviews.

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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