Lead Specialty Software Engineer – Full stack Developer

Wells Fargo Bank•Charlotte, NC

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief Operating Office Technology (COO Tech) organization provides technology services and solutions for the Chief Operating Office, supporting modernization and optimization across its business groups. The role sits within CAO Technology, which supports technology needs for Corporate Properties, Corporate Security, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resiliency, Privacy, and CAO Data and Insights. The Lead Specialty Software Engineer supports the Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) platform and related workplace technology initiatives. This role is a key liaison among platform architects, business stakeholders, technology teams, operations, and vendors, helping drive product strategy, roadmap execution, process optimization, requirements management, testing, and production support. The role owns assigned WSD capabilities end to end, provides technical leadership, supports operational excellence, and mentors less experienced software engineers. The position has a hybrid work schedule and requires working onsite at the listed location.

Requirements

At least 5 years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent experience demonstrated through work, training, military experience, or education.
At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
At least 4 years of SQL Server development experience, including complex queries and stored procedures.
At least 3 years of experience with software and system architecture.
At least 2 years of front-end development experience using Angular and/or React.
At least 1 year of experience in AI-related development.

Nice To Haves

Advanced oral, written, and presentation communication skills, including the ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences.
Hands-on ServiceNow development and implementation experience.
Experience with SDLC tools and CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Sonar, Maven, Gradle, or comparable toolchains.
Knowledge of OpenShift Container Platform and deployment tools such as Harness.
Experience designing and supporting microservices-based architecture.
Experience with Python.
Knowledge and practical application of test-driven development (TDD).
Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
Experience with Kafka or event-driven architectures.
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, or Dynatrace.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including diagnosing complex issues and making sound, risk-aware decisions.
Knowledge of operational dashboards, reporting, and adoption metrics.
Experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology deployments.
Proven experience with enterprise data and integrations, including real estate canonical data models, platform integrations, APIs, microservices, service-to-service communication, and modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

Own assigned WSD capabilities end to end, ensuring alignment among business objectives, technology strategy, and execution.
Partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams, applying strong technical acumen.
Identify delivery, technical, operational, and dependency risks before they affect timelines or business operations.
Maintain visibility into application health, production issues, integration performance, technical debt, and upcoming platform changes.
Facilitate collaboration across teams to resolve complex technical and business challenges.
Lead incident response, production support events, and major releases, including issue triage, root-cause analysis, prioritization, and communication.
Work with engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, supportable, and secure technical solutions.
Participate in solution reviews, test planning, validation, release-readiness assessments, and post-implementation reviews to ensure quality.
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and platform optimization.
Anticipate roadmap commitments, capacity constraints, dependency risks, compliance requirements, and future business needs.
Build and maintain relationships with product owners, business stakeholders, technology teams, operations partners, and vendors.
Champion operational excellence through data-driven decisions, service metrics, adoption monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Mentor less experienced software engineers.
Collaborate with and influence professionals at all levels, including managers, and lead the team to achieve objectives.
Partner effectively with production support and platform engineering teams.