Lead Software Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer. This position is for Hogan team and is a lead engineer role responsible for providing technical direction & leadership to a team of developers. The Hogan team works with all Hogan applications, applications outside of Hogan and various business lines.
In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in HOGAN, preferably in CIS
• 5+ years of experience in programming using COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, VSAM, z/OS Connect.
• Technical expertise in Sort, REXX, Fileaid, Omegamon, Abend-aid, Endeavor/Changeman, Easytrieve etc.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum method and exposure to latest tools like zUnit, Git, SonarQube, Checkmarx, etc. is preferred
• Good experience in leading large to medium projects from the mainframe-end
• Exposure to mainframe modernization
• Should have experience working with Waterfall and Agile development methods

Job Expectations:

• Sound analytical skills
• Excellent communication & organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements and functional design into technical implementation.
• Develop and maintain Hogan programs to specifications.Includes development involving technologies such as COBOL, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2, MQ and Z/OS Connect on Hogan platform. Perform unit testing and ensure functionality meets the business requirements.
• Provide technical leadership to the team & mentor junior team members to help them deliver the work assigned to them and train them to uplift the capability.
• Provides functional & technical consultation and support in the development of computer applications and programs.
• Analyzes business requirements, designs and writes technical specifications to design or redesign computer solutions.
• Develops original and/or complex code - assists in preparing programming specifications and completes programming tasks to maintain or modify current programs or to develop less complex computer programs using COBOL and Hogan framework.
• Leads and/or performs modeling, simulations and analysis efforts for assigned projects.
• Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs.
• Participates in overall systems testing during the development SDLC phase.
• Confirms the migration of application code to the production environment after releases are installed.
• Develops new documentation, participates in the development of department technical procedures and designs user guidebooks as needed. These documents include restart instructions and flow diagrams.

Posting End Date:
30 Jul 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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