Lead Software Engineer -Java Full Stack

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Software Engineering
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Jun 12, 2025

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer Java Full Stack Development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Automation, Monitoring & Observability skillset at the level of Lead Software Engineer for Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT) Engineering Services Team.


In this role, you will:

  • Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
  • Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
  • Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
  • Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
  • Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
  • Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
  • Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor


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
  • 5+ years of building automation solutions through tooling and code
  • 4+ years of Data Modeling and Data Integration Patterns
  • 4+ years of experience with logging, monitoring, and event detection on cloud or distributed platforms.
  • 4+ years of experience with one or more Technology Platforms (Cloud, o/s, etc.): Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Azure, GCP, Linux, Windows

Desired Qualifications:

  • Platform Management Engineering Services, within Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT) focuses on scaled horizontal enterprise solutions that are stable, secure, and always on. EFT Engineering Services is seeking a Lead Software Engineer Full Stack Development Engineer (SRE) to work closely with other custom developers and a peer Site Reliability Engineering practice within EFT supporting multiple technology divisions. We believe that "Hope is not a Strategy" and we solve operational issues through code.
  • We are looking for a Principal Automation Engineer and architect with leadership experience who enjoys and thrives on solving complex problems through innovation while influencing change at scale in a diverse environment. You will technically lead a focused team of Automation Engineers introducing and advancing enterprise Automation practice through code across several hundred applications within EFT.
  • This principal automation engineer and architect role will specifically design and implement automation capabilities and solutions aimed at closing current gaps and increasing efficiencies at broad scale. Additional scope includes evaluating and enabling new tooling and technology strategy via enterprise collaboration, while driving specific solution delivery for the Enterprise Functions Technology line of business.
  • This is a dynamic leadership and technical hands-on role driving significant automation solutions.
  • Proven technical expertise with one or more of the following:
  • Software Development: Java, Python, SQL, bash or combination of other object oriented and scripting language(s)
  • Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Amelia
  • Java Full Stack – Angular/React JS, Springboot, NodeJS,
  • Database: Oracle, SQL, Mongo, Basic Data Modeling,
  • OS and Platform: Azure, SQLMI, GCP, PCF, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows
  • CI/CD: EPL/EPLX, Jenkins/Github Actions, SonarQube, Checkmarks, Blackduck, ServiceNOW AVR, Artifactory
  • Observability and AIOPS: Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Kibana, AppDynamics, Splunk
  • Track record of creating innovative and complex automation solutions, a combination of tooling and code.
  • AI/ML, GenAI: Tachyon, NotebookLM, Microsoft co-pilot, Github co-pilot, LLM Models
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience presenting to senior leadership.
  • Experience leading cross team initiatives.
  • Hands on ability in designing and architecting complex end-to-end automation solutions requiring custom code and data integration patterns.


Job Expectations:

  • Instantiate Site Reliability Engineering practice at Wells Fargo EFT igniting the practice, principles, and culture leading by example. Assist in training skilled peer engineers by growing the practice within EFT and partnering with peer platform embedded SRE teams.
  • Onboard critical customer journeys and applications to Site Reliability Engineering working within EFT and Lines of Business to assess the availability of critical business flows, identify service level objectives and indicators, instrument applications for observability, onboard to CI/CD pipeline taking advantage of continuous testing, introduce continuous inspection, continuous improvement, and conduct destructive testing to reach 99.99% availability for the firms critical products and services leading to higher customer satisfaction and customer experience.
  • Introducing enterprise capabilities, tools, and innovation improving availability in a multi-cloud ecosystem by evolving observability, monitoring, logging, CI/CD integration, continuous testing (performance, smoke, regression, functional, chaos) introduce continuous improvement, standardization/automation, capabilities to conduct destructive and resiliency testing.
  • Evolve AIOPS, ChatOps, NoOps introducing self-healing and autonomic capabilities solving complex operational and systemic issues with precision including building and training models, automating cognitive processes, leveraging Robotic Process Automation, Unified Communication, and AI/ML to improve availability of products we provide to customers.
  • Automate key SRE metrics and IT Service Operations processes including customer impact, % availability of critical business flows, SLO/SLI adherence, error budget, automated incident process for IT Service Operations through data integrating with unified communications, alerting/notification systems, and evolving ChatOps to reduce time to recovery.
  • Share support responsibilities for critical applications and customer journeys on boarded to SRE including remediation of issues through Agile, conduct blameless postmortems, root cause analysis and introduce continuous improvement solving problems once and for all with the goal of no repeats.
  • Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering automation solutions that are long-term, medium to large scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
  • Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical automation engineering solutions.
  • Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant automation solutions.
  • Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership, in addition to mentoring the team
  • Ability to work in a hybrid office environment.
  • Flexible work timings and willing to work on shifts 16x7.
  • Ability to work outside of regular business hours, as needed.

Posting End Date:

17 Jun 2025

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

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