This role requires deep expertise in distributed data systems, application and workflow integration, and analytic platforms, along with the ability to translate current-state constraints into forward-looking architectures. Experience using both traditional development and AI-assisted engineering tools is key. Beyond technical leadership, you will mentor teams, align architecture to business outcomes, and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders. Success in this role requires driving solutions that balance innovation with measurable value, including considerations of scalability, cost (TCO), and ROI.
In this role, you will:
Act as an advisor to senior leadership to develop the architectural framework & delivery for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering products and solutions that are long-term, large-scale, and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership on implementing the transformation strategy describing the current state, target state, and transition architecture
Develop and influence strategic plans, investment planning, and execution on cutover strategies to target
Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an architectural domain expert advisor to leadership
Drive target investments towards target technologies and rationalize spend, total cost of ownership, and return on investment
Ensure applications adhere to established Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies, and industry best practices as it transforms toward target state architecture
Drive the definition, establishment, selection of strategic tools, and application of architecture frameworks
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization and can influence internal and vendor roadmaps in a significant capacity
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, database platforms, or enterprise technology roles, with significant experience in large-scale financial services or banking environments.
- 7+ years of designing enterprise-scale data architectures across hybrid cloud, public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises platforms.
- 7+ years of experience with relational, NoSQL, columnar, distributed, and shared-nothing database technologies.
- Proven ability to design scalable architectures using partitioning, sharding, replication, workload isolation, horizontal scaling, and distributed processing patterns
- Experience architecting batch, streaming, event-driven, real-time, near-real-time, and API-based data integration patterns
- Strong understanding of how application workloads, analytical workloads, reporting workloads, workflow engines, and AI/ML workloads interact with enterprise data platforms
- Hands-on capability with technologies such as SQL, Python, Java, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, APIs, and modern data pipeline frameworks
- Expertise in data modeling, including conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional, canonical, domain-driven, and event-based models
- Strong knowledge of data security architecture, including encryption, tokenization, masking, access controls, entitlement models, secrets management, and audit logging
- Ability to define and evaluate non-functional technical requirements, including latency, throughput, scalability, availability, resiliency, recovery, observability, security, and maintainability
- Familiarity with designing data architectures that support AI, machine learning, feature engineering, model training, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, and analytical workloads
- Experience developing reference architectures, reusable design patterns, platform standards, technical guardrails, and implementation blueprints
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Ability to work a hybrid work schedule - 3 days a week on-site/in office and 2 days a week remote.
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- 300 S Brevard, Charlotte, NC
- 401 Las Colinas Blvd. W, Irving, TX
3 Jul 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, database platforms, or enterprise technology roles with significant experience in large-scale financial services or banking environments.
- 7+ years of designing enterprise-scale data architectures across hybrid cloud, public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises platforms.
- 7+ years of experience with relational, NoSQL, columnar, distributed, and shared-nothing database technologies.
- Designing scalable architectures using partitioning, sharding, replication, workload isolation, horizontal scaling, and distributed processing patterns.
- Architecting batch, streaming, event-driven, real-time, near-real-time, and API-based data integration patterns.
- Strong understanding of application, analytical, reporting, workflow, and AI/ML workload interactions with enterprise data platforms.
- Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Java, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, APIs, and modern data pipeline frameworks.
- Expertise in data modeling: conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional, canonical, domain-driven, and event-based models.
- Strong knowledge of data security architecture including encryption, tokenization, masking, access controls, entitlement models, secrets management, and audit logging.
- Ability to define and evaluate non-functional requirements: latency, throughput, scalability, availability, resiliency, recovery, observability, security, and maintainability.
- Familiarity with designing data architectures to support AI/ML: feature engineering, model training, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector search.
- Experience developing reference architectures, reusable design patterns, platform standards, technical guardrails, and implementation blueprints.
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Wells Fargo ensures its pay and bonus plans remain competitive through a structured, performance-driven compensation philosophy combined with regular market benchmarking. The company’s approach is centered on “pay for performance,” meaning compensation is directly linked to individual contributions, business results, and overall company performance. This includes evaluating how employees meet regulatory expectations, manage risk responsibly, and contribute to long-term value creation.
To maintain market competitiveness, Wells Fargo conducts global compensation reviews using third-party consultants. These reviews assess both base salary and total compensation across the organization, factoring in role, level, tenure, and geographic differences. The company also evaluates pay equity and has reported no significant unexplained pay gaps following its most recent review. This process ensures that compensation remains aligned with industry standards while reinforcing fairness and transparency.
Bonuses and incentives are designed to reward strong performance and support retention of top talent. Compensation programs are structured not only to motivate employees but also to promote prudent risk management and discourage excessive risk-taking—an important consideration in financial services. In addition to performance-based pay, employees benefit from a comprehensive rewards package that includes a 401(k) match (up to 6%), stock purchase opportunities, and other financial wellness resources.
Together, these practices create a compensation framework that balances competitiveness, fairness, and long-term sustainability—helping Wells Fargo attract, retain, and reward talent across its global workforce.
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At-a-Glance
- Compensation philosophy: Pay for performance tied to individual, business, and company outcomes
- Market alignment: Global benchmarking with third-party consultants; no significant unexplained pay gaps
- Bonus structure: Performance-based incentives aligned with results and risk management
- Total rewards: 401(k) match up to 6%, stock purchase plan, financial wellness resources
External Signals
- Comprehensive Benefits: Employees give the company high marks for its benefits package, giving it an ‘A-’ rating and a 73% satisfaction score on external review sites (Comparably).
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