Software Engineering Senior Manager

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead the evolution of engineering capabilities supporting Corporate Risk products, including Testing and Monitoring solutions. In this role, you will drive the design, development, and resilience of critical platforms that safeguard the enterprise. You will provide decisive leadership and work across organizational boundaries to continually elevate security, streamline processes, and enhance service quality for our technology and business partners.
As a transformational leader, you will collaborate closely with agile teams and product managers to deliver impactful outcomes through cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices. You will bring deep technical insight into all components of the solution landscape and leverage that expertise to guide strategic decision-making. You will champion process improvements, operational excellence, and scalable capacity planning to ensure the organization is equipped to meet ongoing technical and business demands.
In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
• Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
• Interpret, develop and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate with, partner with and influence Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
• Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering
• Hire, build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers

Required Qualifications:

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

Desired Qualifications:

• 6+ years of IT experience, including 6+ years in software development and 3+ years in engineering leadership or people management.
• Strong hands-on background with Java/J2EE, Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, MVC, ORM/JPA/Hibernate), messaging systems (Kafka/JMS), and workflow tools.
• Proven experience building cloud-native applications using Java or similar technologies.
• Practical expertise in AI and Generative AI, with demonstrated use of AI/GenAI tools to enhance productivity or optimize engineering workflows.
• Experience leading and collaborating with global delivery teams in a matrixed environment.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical discipline (e.g., CS, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Economics).
• Strong business partnering, communication, innovation mindset, and ability to challenge status quo while staying current with emerging technologies.

Job Expectations:

• Lead the transformation of an established engineering team, elevating capabilities, embedding modern ways of working, and driving a high-performance, outcomes-focused culture.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and product leaders to align with evolving business direction, influence technology priorities, and represent engineering in planning and decision-making.
• Develop and manage engineering talent and leaders, ensuring delivery of high-quality, modern, secure, and scalable solutions that adhere to architectural standards and non-functional requirements.
• Guide technical strategy and modernization efforts by collaborating with architects and senior engineers to drive cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy, and alignment to next-generation architecture.
• Oversee engineering execution and operational excellence, including code quality, peer reviews, SDLC governance, risk management, security standards, roadblock escalation, and continuous process improvement.
• Drive agile and DevOps practices, acting as an escalation partner for teams, removing impediments, fostering experimentation, and enabling predictable delivery across moderate- to high-risk initiatives.
• Manage resources, vendors, and budgets, while building a strong talent pipeline and cultivating a culture that supports innovation and long-term organizational capability.
• Previous experience building applications on platforms such as Archer or ServiceNow.
• Strong understanding of Risk Assessments, Controls, and Testing and Monitoring frameworks within Corporate Risk Management.

Posting End Date:
25 Feb 2026
*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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