Mainframe Software Engineering Senior Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly motivated, dynamic individual to fill a Senior Technology Engineering Manager Role within Core Banking Deposits in the Consumer Technology organization.  This position will be responsible for upskilling, managing and hiring engineers on critical mainframe application development teams. The senior manager is to plan, organize, and manage staff and overall operations that facilitate the stable operation of the bank’s Core Banking Deposit and related system operations. This includes developing, maintain, supporting, and optimizing core banking deposit initiatives and partnering with the business. In this role you will also schedule and direct activities to implement business changes in the core banking deposit applications and service problems in a timely and accurate fashion in partnership with platform support.

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

Required Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years of Management experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, drive for results, attention to quality and detail, and a synergetic attitude

• Ability to develop and deliver effective, well-articulated, written, and oral communications (e.g., emails, presentation materials) applying appropriate level of content/ detail dependent upon audience and intent

• Experience as a highly effective leader with credibility from demonstrating strong business and technology acumen

• Experience motivating and influencing groups or individuals across organizational boundaries to gain trust and confidence to make timely decisions

• Excellent communications, interpersonal, and presentations skills across technical and non-technical groups

• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing teams in a high-pressure environment

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities with a focus on proactive solutions

• Experience with Agile transformations

• Experience in upskilling and managing application development teams

• Experience in creating & delivering technology roadmaps

• Experience in managing on-shore and off-shore teams

• Experience in Core Banking software design/development and/or Mainframe Modernization

• Experience and knowledge in modern practices for IT Applications architecture and operations in medium to large regulated organizations, preferably financial institutions, to provide guidance on quality improvements and problem management.

• Experience in management of support contracts, RFP's and third party support providers

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

Posting End Date:

13 Mar 2025

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

We Value Diversity

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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.

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