Lead Software Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo's DSDC Technology team is seeking a best-in-class Lead Software Engineer. This leader will be responsible for architecting, designing and implementing strategic capabilities to modernize and scale legacy platforms within the Data Services space. They will play a critical role in .Net development activities as well as shaping the product definition, design, roadmap, and development of the current and new products. The team promotes modern data engineering best practices intended to improve quality and improve time to market. Key skills include solutions architecture, domain driven design, test driven design and experience building and deploying, mission critical microservices in a private or a public cloud environment.

About the Team: 

The WIM Technology Data Solutions and Domain Capabilities (DSDC) organization unifies data capabilities across WIM to deliver governed, scalable, and reusable solutions that power decision-making, accelerate product innovation, and ensure responsible data use.  We are not a backend team—we are a strategic product line that enables WIM’s most critical business outcomes. From pipelines to platforms, we architect the data foundation that drives transformation across the enterprise.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs

• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

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

• 5+ years’ experience .Net software development

• 2+ years of experience in Core Java

• 2+ years of experience in Spring boot.

• 2+ years of experience implementing critical NFR patterns such as circuit breakers and retries.

• 2+ years of experience in GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.

• 2+ years of experience with REST APIs using Kafka, Solace

• 2+ years of Redis caching

• 1+ years of deploying and managing applications on Open Shift Container Platform

• 2+ years of experience with observability tools like Splunk, AppDynamics & Grafana

• 4+ years of automated testing

• 4+ years of managing GitHub repositories

• 2+ years of experience using AI such as co-pilot

• 4+ years of Communication Domain experience in a banking environment

• 2+ years’ experience in Developing and enhancing systems responsible for real-time alerts and notifications for critical banking events.

• 2+ years’ experience implementing event-driven and scheduled notification mechanisms across multiple channels (email, SMS, fax, letter, push notifications)

• 2+ years’ experience Operating and optimizing batch processing systems, particularly integrating with NDM (Connect: Direct) for secure file transfers.

Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

• 2+ years developing or maintaining RESTful interfaces

• Understanding of Domain Driven Design principals

• Knowledge of Cloud-based applications and microservices

• Experience remediating security findings/vulnerabilities

Job Expectations:

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