Software Engineering Senior Manager : Google Cloud Platforms

About this role:

• Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead the delivery and support of strategic technology solutions.
• This role drives engineering excellence, operational effectiveness and technology modernization while partnering across product, architecture, infrastructure, risk and business teams to deliver secure, scalable and resilient capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience leading software engineering teams delivering cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), cloud infrastructure and developer enablement practices.
• Experience building and operating highly available, scalable, secure and resilient enterprise platforms and services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and cloud operations.
• Experience establishing observability, monitoring, incident management, capacity management and operational excellence practices.
• Experience driving resiliency, disaster recovery, business continuity and production support strategies for critical enterprise applications.
• Experience partnering with Product Managers, Architects, Infrastructure, Security, Risk and Operations teams to deliver technology solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Experience developing technology roadmaps, engineering standards, reusable platform capabilities and cloud adoption strategies.
• Knowledge of cloud security, risk management, regulatory requirements and governance practices within large financial institutions.
• Experience supporting enterprise Data, Analytics, AI/ML or cloud transformation initiatives.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, mentor and retain engineering talent while fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, technology service providers and strategic technology partnerships.
• Proven ability to lead multiple concurrent initiatives, balance competing priorities and deliver results in a complex enterprise environment.
• Google Cloud certifications such as Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Developer or equivalent cloud certifications.

Job Expectations:

• Provide leadership for engineering delivery, operational stability and technology modernization initiatives supporting enterprise cloud platforms.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices across software development, platform operations, reliability engineering and automation.
• Establish a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, innovation and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries to remove impediments, accelerate delivery and improve customer outcomes.
• Participate in major incident management, production escalation support and executive communications as needed.
• Ensure technology solutions meet enterprise standards for security, resiliency, scalability, availability and risk management.
• Support workforce planning, talent development, succession planning and organizational capability building.
• Influence strategic technology decisions and contribute to the long-term evolution of cloud platform capabilities.

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