Lead Specialty Software Engineer
Wells FargoAbout the role
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About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in Technology as part of Wealth and Investment Management Technology. The Wealth and Investment Management Platform team provides support for Wealth and Investment Management line of business applications. This includes Account Opening and Maintenance, Payables and Receivables, clearance/settlement Commercial Card, Information Reporting, and Pricing Tools, as well as, Enterprise payment applications, including ACH, Wires, and Secure Transmission applications. The team is accountable for the availability, stability, resiliency and operational health of all platforms aligned with TMPS. The team partner with all teams in Wells Fargo including those in business operations to ensure all our customer transactions and associated technologies
are monitored for operational health, performance, capacity and availability. This team plays a key role in enabling and driving forward the agile acceleration and DevOps changes currently underway. Team members within this function will ensure availability is paramount, including our critical obligation of protecting our customer’s information. The Lead Specialty Software Engineer will deliver enterprise capabilities that improve overall availability of 150+ applications across the Wealth and Investment business lines.
We are looking for an engineer who enjoys and thrives on solving complex problems through innovation impacting change at scale. You will join an elite team of engineers driving Technology's transformation by introducing enterprise capabilities and products, launching new platforms, building tools, automating away complex issues, and integrate with the latest technology. The team will leverage experience as software engineers and systems engineers/administrators and work closely with the rest of the WIM development and architecture teams.
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In this role, you will:
- Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
- Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
- Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
- Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies
- Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
- Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
- Mentor less experienced software engineers
- Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
- Lead team to achieve objectives
- Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of application production support experience – expertise in troubleshooting and resolving major incidents
- 3+years of Banking and Financial industry experience.
- 3+ years of experience with building, deploying, and securing cloud container platforms
- 2+ years of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience – Improve system resiliency and stability, Automate CI/CD pipelines (Harness), Blue/Green deployments, expertise in Auto scaling and failover mechanisms
- 2+ years of experience with database technologies such as MongoDB, Basic SQL,
- Oracle, Postgres SQL
- 2+ years of experience with Observability tools such as AppDynamics (equivalent APM), Prometheus, Splunk, Netcool, Autosys, Sitescope, Grafana. Expertise in creating real-time dashboards using Splunk & Grafana
- 1+ years of experience with messaging & API technologies such as Kafka, Apigee.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with system administration across multiple platforms.
- Ability to interact with all levels of an organization
- Experience in driving system stability through problem management and ability to create platform stability periodic metrics
- Strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex materia
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