Software Engineering Manager - WIMT Regulatory and Compliance

Wells Fargo Bank•St Louis, MO

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to oversee the Advisor Field Servicing Risk and Regulatory Platforms. This essential platform maintains regulatorily required records for all WIM advisors with FINRA and governs key operational capabilities, including advisor onboarding, account opening, and authorization for advisors to trade on behalf of their clients. This system is foundational to both compliance and business continuity.

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

Proven experience leading modernization of legacy application portfolios, including re-platforming, refactoring, or migration to cloud-based architectures.
Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and platforms (e.g., OCP/OpenShift, Kubernetes, hybrid cloud).
Demonstrated ability to define and execute modernization roadmaps, balancing business continuity with technical transformation.
Familiarity with data center migrations and infrastructure transformation, including application dependencies and integration impacts.
Proven track record of successful application migrations to cloud environments, including architecture and execution oversight.
Demonstrated experience leading and scaling engineering teams, including mentoring and performance management.
Ability to drive delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives, including modernization, RTB support, and regulatory demands.
Strong ability to translate business priorities into engineering execution plans.
Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and make trade-off decisions aligned to business value.
Self-starter with a high sense of ownership and accountability.
Assertive and direct communicator—comfortable making decisions, challenging assumptions, and driving clarity.
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and lead through change.

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.
Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release.
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.
Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards.
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.
Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers.
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.