Lead Specialty Software Engineer

Wells Fargo & Company•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled Oracle Mongo DBA with deep expertise in designing and operating large scale, highly available database platforms. The ideal candidate will have experience managing Oracle databases in active-active architectures, supporting millions of requests per day, and designing resilient data models that prevent conflicts and enable horizontal scale. This role requires strong technical leadership, architectural judgment, and the ability to operate within regulated enterprise environments.

Requirements

5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5+ years of Oracle DBA experience, including administration of mission critical enterprise systems

Nice To Haves

5+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle active-active architectures, including deep knowledge of replication technologies such as SharePlex
Proven experience designing conflict free data models for active-active systems, including key generation, write routing, and ownership strategies
Extensive experience supporting very high transaction volumes
Strong expertise in Oracle performance tuning, indexing strategies, partitioning, and execution plan optimization
Deep understanding of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, replication lag management, and failure recovery
Experience creating and managing complex views and schemas for analytics and operational workloads
Strong understanding of SDLC, change management, and production release controls
In depth knowledge and extensive experience in performing back and recovery for DB in terabytes
Ability to design enterprise scale data architectures that support both OLTP and downstream analytical use cases
Expert level understanding of active conflict resolution patterns, including detection, remediation, and prevention at the data model level
Strong troubleshooting skills, particularly for replication conflicts, data skew, and performance bottlenecks
Experience partnering with application teams to influence data access patterns and reduce contention
Familiarity with hybrid and distributed data platforms, including integration with NoSQL or streaming technologies
Strong communication skills at all levels of the organization, including the ability to explain complex database behavior in simple terms
Proven ability to lead and mentor other DBAs and engineers
Strong relationship management skills that drive alignment across engineering, operations, and risk teams

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of complex Oracle database architectures, including active-active implementations using technologies such as SharePlex or equivalent replication frameworks
Design highly scalable data models that support high volume daily transactions, ensuring correctness, performance, and conflict avoidance
Create and optimize enterprise grade views and schemas to support downstream consumption with minimal latency and maximum reuse
Define data modeling standards and patterns for active- active Oracle environments, including key design strategies to prevent write conflicts
Lead the implementation of multi region active- active Oracle deployments, ensuring data consistency, availability, and fault tolerance
Troubleshoot and resolve replication conflicts, data divergence, and latency issues with a deep understanding of Oracle internals and replication behavior
Perform advanced performance tuning, capacity forecasting, and workload optimization for high throughput systems
Act as a technical escalation point for complex database and replication issues across production, DR, and migration scenarios
Partner with application, infrastructure, and platform teams to align database architecture with business and resiliency goals
Ensure database solutions meet security, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements
Lead operational readiness, incident response, and root cause analysis for database related events