Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo Bank • St Louis, MO

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About The Position

Well Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Solutioning. This role serves as a strategic liaison between Line of Business (LOB) application teams and the enterprise platform organization. This role is accountable for driving end-to-end infrastructure solution design, alignment, and adoption, ensuring solutions leverage approved enterprise products, meet architectural standards, and are operationally supportable. This position requires a balance of solutioning leadership and execution credibility. The individual will lead complex, cross-functional solutioning efforts while bringing practical experience from hands-on delivery to ensure designs are actionable, efficient, and aligned to real-world execution processes. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy and influence, partnering across CTO architecture, platform engineering, security, and application development teams to improve decision velocity, reduce friction, and enable scalable outcomes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure domains (compute, storage, networking, cloud, and security)
• 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-team technical initiatives with multiple stakeholders
• 5+ years of experience in both solution design and hands-on execution/delivery of infrastructure solutions
• Experience working in large-scale, regulated enterprise environments

Nice To Haves

• Strong understanding of enterprise delivery processes and operating models
• Ability to influence decisions across engineering, architecture, and application teams
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including leading design discussions and resolving ambiguity
• Demonstrated ability to operate at a systems level, connecting infrastructure capabilities to business and application outcomes
• Experience working across organizational boundaries to drive alignment without direct authority
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills in ambiguous or evolving environments
• Ability to balance strategic solutioning with practical execution realities
• Proven track record of identifying and implementing improvements in delivery or engineering processes
• Prior hands-on experience delivering infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments
• Deep familiarity with infrastructure delivery lifecycle (design, build, deploy, operate)
• Ability to assess when to escalate issues vs. allow processes to execute as designed
• Experience translating architectural intent into executable, supportable solutions
• Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience exploring or applying AI, automation, or intelligent tooling in engineering workflows
• Ability to identify opportunities where AI can improve solution design, analysis, documentation, or operational efficiency
• Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate problem-solving, decision-making, and delivery outcomes
• Mindset oriented toward continuous learning, experimentation, and adoption of emerging technologies
• Willingness to challenge traditional approaches and incorporate AI-driven capabilities into day-to-day work

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design engagements across LOB application teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise infrastructure standards and approved products
• Drive end-to-end solution ownership, from initial design through onboarding, implementation alignment, and operational readiness
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional solutioning sessions with stakeholders including Application Development, CTO Architecture, WIMT Architecture, Security, Network, Middleware, and Database teams
• Apply practical execution experience to ensure solutions are realistic, implementable, and aligned to existing delivery processes
• Identify and resolve design gaps, conflicting requirements, and cross-team dependencies
• Exercise judgment in when to drive intervention vs. when to leverage established processes, ensuring efficient and scalable delivery
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure solution designs transition cleanly into execution
• Identify opportunities to improve execution processes, reduce friction, and streamline delivery based on hands-on experience
• Reinforce adoption of enterprise design patterns and infrastructure standards
• Assess operational readiness including monitoring, resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, and incident response integration
• Support lifecycle management strategy by aligning solutions to enterprise currency, compliance, and modernization objectives
• Act as a connector across organizations, improving coordination, decision-making, and overall solution quality
• Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications
• Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure
• Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals
• Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future
• Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
• Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Interact with customer and vendor

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• 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.
• Focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture.
• Accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance).
• Timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions.
• 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.
• Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed