Lead Specialty Software Engineer

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Charlotte, NC
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Role
The Lead Specialty Software Engineer will lead complex software initiatives, ensuring system efficiency, stability, and compliance while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with multiple teams.
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At Wells Fargo, we are looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. We are seeking candidates who embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in a workplace where everyone feels valued and inspired. Help us build a better Wells Fargo. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.

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.

Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

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 material to a diverse audience
  • Experience with one or more Cloud platforms: OpenShift Container Platform, Azure, AWS,
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or VMware Tanzu App Service (TAS)
  • Experience utilizing Cloud Infrastructure with tools and applications such as AWS Cloud
  • Formation Templates, Spinnaker and Terraform

Job Expectations:

  • Flexibility to work in a 24/7 environment, including weekends and holidays
  • Position offers a hybrid work schedule

Locations:

  • 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina 28262-8522

Posting End Date: 

17 Apr 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in US: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

 

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
233,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1852

What We Do

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo’s vision is to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through more than 7,300 locations, 12,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in over 40 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 250,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 41 on Fortune’s 2022 rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.

Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.
Wells Fargo is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. © 2016 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.

Why Work With Us

We're known for our “Well Life” approach to supporting employees’ career aspirations, work-life balance, and mental and physical health. We ranked #2 on the 2023 LinkedIn Top Companies list – and #1 among financial services companies – as the best workplace “to grow your career” in the U.S.

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