Platform Engineering Manager
About The Position
Wells Fargo is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager within the Chief Data Office (CDO), supporting the Enterprise Data Platforms organization. This role will lead the end-to-end development of a greenfield platform, from initial concept through production deployment. This role is responsible for building and scaling the team, defining the path to production, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery aligned with the product vision. What you are building: A next-generation enterprise platform that accelerates delivery of data and application capabilities through standardized, modular services and automation. It embeds governance early via shift-left practices and enforces consistency through a centralized control plane with integrated metadata and observability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 2+ years of Leadership experience
Nice To Haves
- Experience with greenfield platform builds or large-scale platform modernization initiatives
- Background in data platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise application ecosystems
- Demonstrated success building platforms or products from concept to production and driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, product and operations teams
- Strong experience managing complex delivery programs with tight timelines and dependencies
- Hands-on understanding of modern platform engineering practices (cloud platforms, CI/CD, DevOps, microservices, data platforms)
- Familiarity with regulatory, compliance, and governance requirements in large enterprises
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
- Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
- Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
- Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
- 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 low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
- Collaborate and consult with the 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
- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
- Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products
Benefits
- May be considered for a discretionary bonus, Restricted Share Rights, or other long – term incentive awards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
