Software Engineering Senior Manager

About the vision:

Wells Fargo's Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) is making a significant multi-year investment in its customer facing platforms to provide an even more compelling and competitive offering to customers. This investment will add important new capabilities and features both for self-directed and automated finance management. To support these customer-centric enhancements and to ensure the platform scales for future success, we are embarking on a technology modernization effort. The key to our success will be hiring best-in-class technology professionals to drive our transformation.

About our team:

The WIMT Advice & Planning team manages, develops and supports customer facing financial advice and planning management systems. It has 130+ technology professionals globally between the US and India. Our main development centers in the US are in New York/New Jersey, Charlotte (NC) and St. Louis (MO). You should expect to spend three days a week collaborating with your team in the office on a flexible schedule. Our engineers are a mixture of full stack, front end and back-end service experts, who take advantage of the firm’s commitment to ongoing professional development through a wide range of resources. We have a separate first line support team that allows engineers to focus on their objectives. Our strong partnership with our business and co-ownership of work through the Agile product operating model means that there are plenty of opportunities for you to work directly with our business partners and further your understanding of the business.

About this role:

Wells Fargo's Advice & Planning team is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead the Performance Engineering team. This leader will be responsible for designing and implementing strategic capabilities to modernize and scale the performance reporting platforms. They will play a critical role in shaping the product definition, design, roadmap, and development of the current and new products and be a key partner to the Product Owner leadership team. Our team strivers to be destination for strong and engaged engineering talent, promoting modern engineering best practices intended to improve quality and time to market.

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

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