Senior Software Engineering Manager

Wells Fargo • Irving, TX

17h

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the design, delivery, and evolution of enterprise-scale automation platforms aimed at reducing operational toil, improving reliability, and accelerating engineering productivity. This role involves managing, coaching, and developing teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers, ensuring adherence to Banking Platform Architecture and meeting non-functional requirements. The manager will partner with architects and engineers to integrate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, understand next-generation domain architecture, and facilitate application migration paths to target architectures, including cloud readiness, application modernization, and data strategy. Key responsibilities include acting as the technical representative for the product in cross-team collaborations, identifying and resolving technology roadblocks, and overseeing the software development cycle and security standards. The position also requires acting as an escalation partner for scrum masters, removing impediments, fostering continuous learning, conducting peer reviews, and guiding design to ensure security, stability, and scalability. Collaboration with Product Managers/Product Owners is essential to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements, promote innovative solutions, and advocate for agile and DevOps practices. The role also entails interacting with third-party vendors, managing people and financial resources, and cultivating a culture of talent development to meet business objectives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams delivering complex, enterprise-scale systems
• Strong background in automation, CI/CD, observability, and modern SDLC practices
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments and managing delivery across multiple teams
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, SDLC, and modern cloud-based architectures
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage ambiguity, and make sound technical and people decisions
• 7+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Management or leadership experience
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including reliability, observability, and toil reduction
• Hands-on knowledge of automation frameworks, orchestration tools, and cloud platforms
• Familiarity with modern UI frameworks, automated testing tools, and platform telemetry solutions
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• 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
• Lead the design, delivery, and evolution of enterprise-scale automation platforms that reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and accelerate engineering productivity
• Provide leadership across people, delivery, and technical outcomes for Gen AI initiatives
• Define and execute the technical vision for automation platforms supporting reliability, observability, CI/CD, and operations enablement
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud readiness, application modernization, and agent-driven automation patterns aligned to enterprise architecture standards
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual toil through workflow automation, self-service platforms, and intelligent orchestration
• Foster a culture of innovation, automation, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Balance rapid experimentation with enterprise-grade controls and risk management
• Serve as a role model for leadership behaviors and ethical AI practices

Benefits

• 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.
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees