Senior Lead Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to be part of the core banking modernization efforts for Enterprise Product and Pricing Management (EPPM).  This position will lead/manage/support Rates Modernization development by building highly scalable, resilient applications. The ideal candidate will be part of the engineering leadership team and partner with business/technical product managers, systems architects, and engineers.  This position will play a key role in managing/supporting all technology risk remediation/management tasks and focus on modernization transformation activities including leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Candidate will also be responsible to ensure technology solutions implemented adheres to Wells Fargo enterprise policies and standards including documentation of items such as Security Plans, Service Level Agreements, and general system documentation.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to senior leadership to develop or influence platform support solutions for highly complex business and technical needs or technology initiatives

• Lead highly complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high-level systems consultation for the technology teams related to large scale planning of computer systems and network infrastructure for Systems Operations functional areas

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking

• Translate advanced technology experience, in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions

• Provide vision, direction and expertise to senior leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions

• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization

• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

• Provide training and mentoring to less experienced team members on guidebook changes and lead team to meet technical deliverables, while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards

• Oversee the design and development of highly complex code while providing training and mentoring to less experienced team members on guidebook changes and lead team to meet technical deliverables, while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards

• Hands on oversight of development, unit testing and building high quality solutions that is simple, scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable

• Participate in all phases of the SDLC including documentation, code reviews, research, and support

• Champions continuous improvements in the organization and ensures the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed

• Ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met

• Ensure effective Production systems monitoring, alarming and notification response/maintenance

• Work with Agile/Scrum teams, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 6+ years of experience in Java (Java 17), Spring Boot, and JPA for backend development

• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering Microservices and REST/SOAP APIs using XML/JSON

• 5+ years of experience building responsive UIs with React and developing backend services with Node.js

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in OpenShift, Docker, and Kubernetes for cloud-native deployments

• 5+ years of experience with GitHub, including implementing Git workflows, enforcing code quality and security through GitHub actions and integrations

• 5+ years of experience working with observability and monitoring tools like Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ years of CI/CD pipeline development, with hands-on expertise in Designing and maintaining automat