Technology Director – Technology Resiliency

Wells Fargo & Company•Iselin, NJ

2d•$215,000 - $355,000

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director – Technology Resiliency to lead and scale enterprise resiliency capabilities across critical platforms, applications, and infrastructure. This role is responsible for setting the strategic direction, operating model, and execution of enterprise technology resiliency, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regulatory expectations, and long-term technology strategy. The leader will oversee teams of engineering managers and senior engineers while driving consistent, scalable resiliency practices across the enterprise. The Technology Director will operate at the intersection of engineering, architecture, risk, and business leadership, ensuring that critical services are resilient by design and capable of operating through severe but plausible disruptions.

Requirements

10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
4+ years of management or leadership experience
10+ years of experience in technology engineering, architecture, or platform leadership
4+ years of experience leading managers and multiple engineering teams
10+ years’ experience delivering enterprise-scale technology strategy and execution
10+ years’ experience in high availability, distributed systems, and cloud/hybrid environments
10+ years of proven success in operating within regulated environments and managing technology risk
10+ years’ experience influencing and aligning senior leaders across complex organizations

Nice To Haves

Experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries
Background in resiliency engineering, SRE, or large-scale production systems
Experience leading organizational or operating model transformations
Familiarity with regulatory expectations (US, UK, EU) related to operational resilience

Responsibilities

Define and drive the enterprise technology resiliency strategy, aligned to business priorities, regulatory expectations, and enterprise technology roadmaps
Translate strategy into multi-year roadmaps, execution plans, and measurable outcomes
Ensure consistent delivery of strategic commitments aligned to enterprise objectives
Build alignment and support across senior technology and business leadership
Provide oversight and accountability for resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of critical technology services
Establish and enforce enterprise resiliency standards, design patterns, and engineering practices
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including: Fault-tolerant and highly available architectures, Automation-first recovery, AI and Agentic adoption for technology operation, Observability and service-level objectives, Chaos engineering and resilience testing
Set and enforce risk management frameworks and resiliency guidelines in partnership with Risk, Compliance, and Audit
Ensure alignment with regulatory expectations related to technology and operational resilience
Represent technology resiliency in regulatory engagements, audits, and industry forums
Drive remediation of material resiliency risks across the technology landscape
Oversee identification and management of Important Business Services and supporting technology
Ensure business impact tolerances are translated into clear and actionable recovery objectives (RTO, RPO, MTO)
Drive enterprise-wide visibility into resiliency posture, risks, and mitigation strategies
Ensure resilience capabilities are tested, validated, and continuously improved
Manage budget, financial planning, and resource allocation for resiliency initiatives
Optimize use of internal teams, platforms, and third-party providers
Balance investment decisions to achieve risk reduction, operational efficiency, and scalability