Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Systems Operations Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). In this role you would be responsible for front-line (F1) engagement in technology incidents and events impacting CCIBT, helping to ensure rapid detection, effective coordination, clear communications, and disciplined execution during incidents, major events, and high-risk operational activities.
In this role, you will:
- Actively engage with Major Incidents assisting with triage, stakeholder communications, and recovery activities, while ensuring high-quality hand-off to Problem Management
- Help drive timely engagement of platform, infrastructure, and application teams to restore service.
- Ensure incidents are accurately logged, updated, and transitioned across shifts using defined handover processes and tooling
- Help coordinate Major Incidents and planned/unplanned technology events (e.g., BCP exercises, data center activities, market events).
- Support or lead war rooms / command bridges, ensuring disciplined execution, clear roles, and structured updates.
- Track milestones, risks, and application readiness during events, ensuring issues are raised and managed via standard incident processes.
- Maintain accurate event status tracking and ensure final outcomes and issues are formally documented.
- Deliver clear, concise, and timely communications to stakeholders, senior leadership, and executive audiences during incidents and events.
- Produce and distribute incident notifications, updates, and summaries via approved channels (email, Teams, leadership chats).
- Identify opportunities to improve incident detection, response efficiency, automation, and tooling
- Experience in Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, education
- Strong experience in IT Incident and Event Management within an enterprise environment.
- Proven ability to operate calmly and decisively in high-pressure, high-visibility situations.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, including executive-level updates.
- Solid understanding of ITIL Incident, Problem, and Change Management practices.
- Hands-on experience with ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM platforms.
- Experience supporting Major Events, BCP/DR exercises, or market-critical activities.
- Familiarity with follow-the-sun operational models.
- Exposure to Reliability Engineering, SLOs, or automation-first operations.
- Experience within banking, financial services, or regulated technology environments.
9 Apr 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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