Senior Software Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a...

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.
• To lead the design, delivery, and evolution of enterprise‑scale automation platforms that reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and accelerate engineering productivity.

Required Qualifications:

• • 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams delivering complex, enterprise‑scale systems.
  • Strong background in automation, CI/CD, observability, and modern SDLC practices.
  • Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments and managing delivery across multiple teams.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, SDLC, and modern cloud‑based architectures.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage ambiguity, and make sound technical and people decisions.
  • 7+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Management or leadership experience
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including reliability, observability, and toil reduction.
• Hands‑on knowledge of automation frameworks, orchestration tools, and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks, automated testing tools, and platform telemetry solutions
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Job Expectations:

• Provide leadership across people, delivery, and technical outcomes for Gen AI initiatives.

• Define and execute the technical vision for automation platforms supporting reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations enablement.

• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud readiness, application modernization, and agent‑driven automation patterns aligned to enterprise architecture standards

• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual toi