Software Engineering Manager

Job Summary

• 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

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
  • Java (Java 17/21 preferred)
  • Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs
  • Event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ, Streaming platforms)
  • Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
  • Containers and Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available, secure enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, resiliency, security, and observability practices.
• Experience building or implementing AI/ML solutions, including:
  • Generative AI and LLM applications
  • RAG architectures
  • Agentic AI frameworks
  • Prompt engineering
  • Model integration and AI governance
  • Vector databases and semantic search technologies.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives involving legacy-to-cloud or mainframe-to-Java transformations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior technology and business leaders.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and driving large-scale delivery programs.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Product Operating Model, Engineering Excellence, and DevSecOps practices

Job Expectations Engineering Leadership

• Lead and develop multiple Agile engineering teams delivering enterprise-scale Java and AI-powered solutions.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, quality, continuous improvement, and customer outcomes.
• Mentor engineering managers, lead engineers, architects, and developers to create a high-performing organization.
• Technical Strategy Architecture
• Define and execute the technology roadmap for modern Java-based platforms.
• Drive architecture reviews and ensure adherence to enterprise architecture, security, resiliency, and engineering standards.
• Guide teams in building scalable microservices, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled solutions.

AI Innovation

• Establish and drive adoption of AI/ML capabilities across engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities to leverage GenAI, Agentic AI, automation, and predictive analytics to improve developer productivity and customer outcomes.
• Partner with data science, architecture, and product teams to bring AI-powered capabilities into production responsibly.

Delivery Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives from ideation through production deployment.
• Manage roadmaps, funding, staffing, dependencies, and execution risks.
• Ensure predictable delivery while maintaining engineering quality, security, and compliance standards.

Engineering Excellence

• Champion modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SRE principles, and DevSecOps.
• Drive reduction of technical debt and continuous platform modernization.
• Establish engineering metrics and OKRs related to quality, reliability, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

Talent Organization

• Hire, retain, and grow world-class engineering talent.
• Build succession plans and create a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation.
• Foster collaboration across engineering, product, architecture, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

Risk Governance

• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise security, resiliency, regulatory, and risk-management standards.
• Drive vulnerability remediation, lifecycle management, platform health, and operational readiness.