Cyber Engineering Director

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director in Technology as part of Cybersecurity. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

Wells Fargo is seeking a leader of our Information Security tools engineering team. The role sits within our Cybersecurity group leading a team of engineers responsible for our Cyber cloud, endpoint, platform, defense, I/R teams, governance, tooling and solutions as a level 3 engineering solutions  engineering for the Cyber security organization.

We are a bank that systematically cares and is responsible for our client’s best interests.

This role is a senior level leadership position responsible for driving Cyber technology solutions, to enable our Cyber programs across cloud security, network security, analytics operations teams. Your objective is to ensure the directives and activities are in alignment with policies and company risk.

In this role you will provide industry-leading security solutions engineering as well as security vendor tooling innovation R&D for in-depth best-in-class level 3 engineering for our cyber utilized tools. You will help Wells Fargo engineer our controls  to reduce risks from sophisticated threats to reduce the overall impact of business risk and enable our data protection, cloud, governance, CSIRT and Data loss teams. You will be able to work with early round technology start-ups and control design partners to build a world class defense in depth engineering tooling strategy. You will work on engagements to provide level 3 engineering and occasional call-in for support assistance with navigating incidents and empowering our detective and preventative controls for users, technology, business process for the sophisticated threat groups. Experience with leading large financial service security engineering world class detective and preventative controls and industry cyber innovation experience will be a key part of this function as we evolve controls with today's advanced threats. 

You’ll be a leader that inspires the team and encourages and facilitates growth, education, certification, and empowerment. In addition, you’ll be a poised leader and team player who gains support from all levels of the organization, including senior executives. You're the kind of person with advanced follow up skills with the attention to detail to multitask, strong team orientation and interpersonal skills.

In this role, you will:

• Manage information security engineering team
• 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
• 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 IT, external law enforcement agencies, FUSION teams, 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:

• 8+ years of Technology Engineering and architecture Leadership experience with sizeable budgets and strategic initiatives and leading large teams
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience
• 5+ years of Managing Director level management or equivalent leadership experience in banking or financial services
• 5+ years leading a security innovation lab in the US and/or Israel and detailed knowledge of key information security risk domains and third-party technologies positioned to each of the domains