Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager
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
- 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 or leadership experience.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Advanced certifications in cloud platforms (e.g., OpenShift, Azure, GCP), DevOps, or SRE practices are a plus.
- 6+ Years of Strong programming skills in Java and Python, with experience in building scalable systems and internal tools.
- 6+ Years of Deep understanding of microservice architecture, cloud-native platforms, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, SLMs, and agentic AI systems, especially in tooling and automation contexts.
- 6+ Years of Expertise in Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog), and incident management frameworks.
- Familiarity with Amelia or similar chatbot platforms for operational automation and support.
- Strong understanding of governance, compliance, and operational risk management in engineering environments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking skills.
- 6+ Years of experience in Leading and Scale SRE Practices
- Drive the adoption and evolution of SRE principles across platform teams, ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient while meeting defined service level objectives (SLOs).
- Build and Evolve Internal Tooling
- Oversee the design and development of internal tools and platforms that enhance observability, incident response, automation, and developer productivity.
- Drive Operational Excellence
- Establish a culture of continuous improvement through blameless postmortems, proactive risk mitigation, and data-driven reliability engineering.
- Mentor and Grow High-Performing Teams
- Attract, develop, and retain top SRE and platform engineering talent while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-accountability team environment.
- 6+ Years of experience in Leading SRE Strategy & Execution: Champion SRE principles across engineering teams, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and reliability metrics.
- Architect and Develop Internal Tooling: Build scalable internal platforms and tools that enhance observability, automation, incident response, and developer experience.
- AI-Driven Reliability Solutions: Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate LLMs, SLMs, and agentic systems into reliability tooling, predictive monitoring, and intelligent automation.
- Microservices & Cloud Infrastructure: Oversee reliability and performance of distributed microservices deployed across cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, containers, serverless).
- Team Leadership & Development: Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of SREs and platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, infrastructure, and AI engineering teams to embed reliability and resilience throughout the software lifecycle.
2 Dec 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.
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