Legal Technology Software Engineering Manager

About this role:

The Legal Technology group is an award-winning part of Wells Fargo Enterprise Functions Technology. We support the core strategies of the Legal Department and Board of Directors to make legal work more efficient and to empower professionals to give better and quicker advice. We are seeking a dynamic and collaborative Software Engineering Manager to manage a team of software engineers and technology product delivery professionals.

At Wells Fargo, we value you for who you are and the potential you possess. Our innovative approach to work empowers individuals nationwide to express themselves, excel, and take bold steps. Recognizing each person's uniqueness brings out their utmost capabilities. Join us at Wells Fargo, where we strive to bring out your best by giving you ours in return.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology

• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release

• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture, for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy

• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning

• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards

• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture

• 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 low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk

• Collaborate and consult with the 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 for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team

• Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 2+ years of Leadership experience

• 2+ years of Management experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 4+ years of strong design experience in Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design, and event-based integration.

• 4+ years of experience in API. Microservices, Containers, Databases (SQL Server)

• 4+ years of CICD tools (GitHub, TFS, Jenkins, Maven or Gradle, uDeploy) experience

• 2+ years of Cloud experience

• 2+ years of Agile Methodology

• Expertise in originating and evaluating software and staffing contracts and engagements and managing contract staff and software engagements from inception to completion

• Expertise in vendor management and holding vendor teams accountable for technology risk and security compliance.  Experience in reviewing software security scans and driving vendor teams to be accountable for Wells Fargo security compliance.

• Expertise in working with agile engineering teams, and partnering with product owners to advance and improve practices for timely, efficient, and predictable delivery of feature

• Advanced experience in managing and delivering agile/scrum products in technically, complex environments

• Demonstrated team leadership experience including hiring and talent development practices

• Demonstrated experience in managing teams of engineers designing, programming, and deploying solutions for .NET/C# and Cloud environments

• Well-versed in developing applications leveraging MSFT Full Stack, Web Services, Design Patterns & Cloud Platform enablement with engineering focus.

• Testing - Unit, SIT and support for UAT testing. Test Automation using Selenium, JUnit, NUnit

• Experience providing effort estimates, identify resource needs, and enforces project and delivery standards

• Demonstrated experience in leading strategy roadmap in a large technically complex environment

• Demonstrated experience in managing stakeholder relationships across multiple business units or technical domains

• Demonstrated ability to manage a diverse, geographically distributed team

• Ability to motivate staff to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work /under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.

• Strong demonstrated people development skills to hire, coach, develop, and mentor team members.

• Proven expertise on building a culture of continuous improvement within team and put together metrics to measure the impact of their efforts

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively across organizational lines and with virtual team members.

• Banking or Financial Services experience

Job Expectations:

• Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others

• Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.

• Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers

• Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.

• Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with

The pay range for this position in NC is between $111,100 to $197,500.00 depending on experience and expertise.

Posting End Date: 

27 Apr 2025

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. 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.

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 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.

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