Software Engineering Manager – Identity and Access Management Reporting & Analytics

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:

• 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:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership/management role.
• Experience working with data and engineering teams to optimize reports, dashboards and ETL processes.
• Hands-on knowledge of reporting and analytical tools such as Tableau, Power BI, SAS, Python, Alteryx etc., as well as JIRA, GitHub and MS-PowerApps.
• Hands-on knowledge of the mathematics of data science, machine learning and language models.
• Strong book-of-work management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• Experience leading risk projects to deliver complex data driven risk management solutions
• Hands-on ability to manipulate data and tools to prototype and present solutions
• Confident and self-motivated producer of original ideas and solutions, with sound judgment for when to escalate issues
• Strong written and verbal communicator with excellent presentation skills
• Strong experience building and managing distributed data systems, APIs, and cloud-native applications (GCP, AWS, or Azure preferred).
• Understanding of cybersecurity data sources (e.g., SIEM, endpoint logs, vulnerability scanners, threat intel feeds) and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, NIST, FFIEC).
• Past software development experience is highly desirable.
• Experience in regulated environments such as financial services or healthcare is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders and senior leadership.

Job Expectations:

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering efforts for cybersecurity identity and access management (IAM) within a large, complex financial institution. This role sits at the intersection of cybersecurity, software engineering, and data analytics, and is critical to enabling real-time, high-quality insights that support IAM operations, compliance, and executive decision-making.

• Lead a team of software and data engineers in building secure, scalable, and performant platforms for identity and access management analytics and reporting.
• Partner with other IAM teams including operations, onboarding, initiatives and engineering teams as well as line of business and lines of defense teams to understand reporting needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Design and oversee the development of data pipelines, data models, dashboards, and API integrations to deliver real-time and batch analytics use cases.
• Drive analytical excellence by adopting best practices in ETL pipelines, tool usage and reporting self-service architectures.
• Ensure solutions meet stringent security, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage team performance, career development, hiring, and mentoring to build a high-performing, diverse engineering team.
• Own end-to-end delivery and support of critical analytics platforms used by Cybersecurity leadership, auditors, regulators, and senior executives.
• Monitor system health, reliability, and metrics to ensure continuous improvement and incident readiness.
• Familiarity with tools like Splunk, BigQuery, and graph databases.
• Background in agile program management and cross-functional leadership.
• Experience with AI/ML applications in cybersecurity analytics.

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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