Platform Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Platform Engineering Manager within the Chief Data Office (CDO), supporting the Enterprise Data Platforms organization. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com

This role will lead the end-to-end development of a greenfield platform, from initial concept through production deployment. This role is responsible for building and scaling the team, defining the path to production, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery aligned with the product vision.

What you are building:

A next-generation enterprise platform that accelerates delivery of data and application capabilities through standardized, modular services and automation. It embeds governance early via shift-left practices and enforces consistency through a centralized control plane with integrated metadata and observability.

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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 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
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with greenfield platform builds or large-scale platform modernization initiatives
• Background in data platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise application ecosystems
• Demonstrated success building platforms or products from concept to production and driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, product and operations teams
• Strong experience managing complex delivery programs with tight timelines and dependencies
• Hands-on understanding of modern platform engineering practices (cloud platforms, CI/CD, DevOps, microservices, data platforms)
• Familiarity with regulatory, compliance, and governance requirements in large enterprises
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills

Locations:

• 300 S Brevard, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

• 401 Las Colinas Blvd W Bldg. A - Irving, TX 75039

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule in office 3 days a week

• Need to be available for on-call support

• The flexibility to work ad-hoc shifts when required.

Posting Statements:

• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

• Required location(s) listed above. Relocation assistance is not available for this position

• Salary range is determined by location of the job. May be considered for a discretionary bonus, Restricted Share Rights, or other long – term incentive awards.

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

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.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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