Software Engineering Manager -Big Data Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building and operating mission‑critical Risk and Finance data platforms.

This role blends software engineering leadership, data engineering and SRE practices, with accountability for platform reliability, data correctness, and operational excellence. You will work closely with Risk, Finance, Infrastructure, and Platform teams operating with a strong sense of urgency in a highly regulated environment.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
• 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 low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate and consult with the 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 for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
• Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products

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
• 2+ years of Leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Big Data & Storage: Apache Iceberg, Hive, Big Data platforms

• Processing & Streaming: Spark, Kafka

• Platforms: Data Private Cloud, NexusOne Intelligence

• Cloud & Infra: Private Cloud / Hybrid Cloud environments

• Practices: CI/CD, observability, automation, incident management

Job Expectations:

• Lead engineers delivering production-grade data platforms for Risk, Finance, and Regulatory reporting.
• Own reliability, availability, performance, and recoverability of data platforms.
• Apply SRE principles: Observability, automation and tooling.
• Partner closely with Risk and Finance stakeholders to deliver accurate, reconciled, auditable data under strict deadlines.
• Collaborate daily with Data Platform, Private Cloud, Infrastructure and platform teams.
• Drive fast, high‑quality execution while balancing delivery, stability, and regulatory risk.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Act with urgency to unblock teams, resolve issues, and keep critical platforms stable.

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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

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