Software Engineering Manager

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager
In this role, you will:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ 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

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong Data Platform & Engineering Leadership expertise in
• Leading teams building and operating high-volume, highly reliable data pipelines
• Design and evolve data warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse architectures
• Driving modernization from legacy / on-prem systems to cloud platforms
• Ensuring data platforms meet enterprise scalability, reliability, and performance standards
• Strategic Thinking & Business Alignment
• Strong understanding of business goals and how technology enables them
• Ability to translate business strategy into long-term technical roadmaps
• Engineering Mindset & Values - Strong commitment to: Quality , Security ,Reliability ,Ethical engineering
  Execution & Ownership Proven ability to own and drive mission-critical initiatives from concept to production
• Leadership & People Management skill
• Manage and grow data engineers across seniority levels
• Hiring, onboarding, performance management
• Skill development plans and career growth
• Delivery, Program & Stakeholder Management
• Managing delivery across multiple parallel initiatives
• Strong Agile / hybrid delivery experience

Job Expectations:
Execution Excellence

• Lead execution of high-risk, high-visibility business critical initiatives
• Break down complex problems into actionable technical plans

• Team velocity and delivery predictability
• Reduction in manual interventions through automation
• Code quality and pipeline standard adherence
• Adoption of CI/CD and engineering best practices
• Cloud Cost & Resource Optimization
• Cloud cost trend vs data volume growth
• Cost optimization initiatives delivered per quarter
• Compute utilization efficiency
• Reduction in unused or oversized resources
• Delivery & Execution Efficiency
  On-time delivery rate for business and regulatory initiatives

Posting End Date:
15 Feb 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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