Senior Database Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to create and manage databases for the organization, including designing, building, installing, and maintaining databases to meet business needs. This role will also leverage emerging AI capabilities to streamline database operations, enhance decision-making, and drive automation across the database lifecycle.

It’s an exciting time to be a part of Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Database Management team. This position will help shape and transform Wells Fargo’s enterprise database landscape. As a SQL Server Database Engineer in Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Database management group, you will be responsible for driving and leading database solutions for application technology teams.

Your primary responsibilities will involve working with engineers within the Database Center of Excellence to help provide architectural, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and technology End of Life or migration solutions. In addition, you will incorporate AI-assisted tooling and intelligent automation to simplify repeatable operational tasks, accelerate troubleshooting, and improve database performance insights.

The position will report into a Database Engineering Manager within the Database and Middleware Operations team.

Technology sets IT strategy; enhances the design, development, and operations of our systems; optimizes the Wells Fargo infrastructure; provides information security; and enables Wells Fargo global customers to have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week banking access through in-branch, online, ATMs, and other channels. Our mission is to deliver stable, secure, scalable, and innovative services at speeds that delight and satisfy our customers and unleash the skills potential of our employees through modern engineering practices, including AI-driven insights and automation.

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in database management activities including designing highly complex logical and physical databases
• Lead highly complex data modeling, mapping, integration, and capacity planning efforts
• Perform the planning, research, design, implementation, maintenance, and control of server class databases
• Design and implement security solutions including Center for Internet Security benchmarks and auditing
• Design and certify next generation database technologies, including AI-enabled database platforms and automation frameworks
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to automate routine database operations such as health checks, patching validation, performance tuning recommendations, and incident triage
• Utilize predictive analytics and machine learning insights to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints, and failure risks
• Consult with and advise management and multiple clients on high impact data or database management issues, influencing strategic direction
• Provide technical leadership and recommendations into the future direction of database technology, including adoption of AI-driven database management solutions
• Develop management policies, procedures, standards, and best practices, incorporating intelligent automation and data-driven decision-making
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Database Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of experience in supporting software development life cycle for large-scale distributed database technology projects and migrations
• 4+ years of MS SQL server experience
• 4+ years of experience writing Microsoft SQL Server relational database queries, stored procedures, query optimization and performance tuning
• 3+ years of experience working with large data sets, transactional platforms, or a combination of both
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of data replication and recovery strategies including Mirroring, Log Shipping, Availability Groups

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with MS Azure cloud computing technology
• 2+ years of experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines
• 2+ years of experience with Linux
• Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools
• Exposure to AI/ML concepts, AI-assisted development tools, or intelligent automation platforms applied to database operations
• Experience using AI-powered tools for query optimization, anomaly detection, or operational automation
• Strong technical and task/timeline-oriented skills necessary to ensure proje