Senior Software Engineering Manager

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Software Engineering
Charlotte, NC, USA
Posted on Jul 9, 2025

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Technology as part of Commercial Corporate & Investment Bank Technology (CCIBT) engineering and transformation office. The CCIBT group supports the Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking businesses as well as Payment Solutions, Capital Markets Services, Wholesale Digitization, and International Technology across the firm. This diverse portfolio of capabilities spans multiple technology disciplines and strategic innovations.

Looking for a manager with hands on technical background with Full stack Java development and microservices and has experience managing third party or vendor transformation projects.


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:

  • 6+ 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
  • Hands-on experience working with Microservices, J2EE architecture
  • 3+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies
  • Experience in the financial industry

Desired Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of JMS (Java Message Service) experience
  • 4+ years of Kafka Platform experience, Confluent Platform experience, or a combination of both
  • 3+ years of experience with secure DevOps and deployment automation to cloud environments
  • 3+ years of experience with Test Automation
  • Strong understanding of middleware and application server concepts like Integration, Transactions and Security. Also aware of Connection pooling, Load balancing and Messaging; clustered server environment and familiar with system performance related tasks
  • Experience in conducting NFR testing to evaluate application Recovery Time Objective [RTO] , Recover Point-in Objective [RPO]
  • Experience in collaborate, conduct, and support various testing initiatives such as System Testing, UAT, Performance
  • Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to manage effectively in virtual environment where key team members and partners are in various time zones and locations
  • Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and implement change


    Job Expectations:

    • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
    • Ability to work additional hours as needed
    • Position offers a hybrid work schedule

    Posting Locations:

    • 300 South Brevard, CHARLOTTE, NC
    • 1525 W W T Harris Blvd ,CHARLOTTE, NC

    Desired Qualifications:

    • Experience with Payments systems – ACH, and/or Wires strongly preferred

    • Well versed with payment domain and different clearing houses including FED, Chips, CHAPS, Target, and Swift network

    • Well versed with customer hierarchy, Account hierarchy and payment processing flows

    • Hands-on experience working with Microservices, J2EE architecture
    • Strong understanding of middleware and application server concepts like Integration, Transactions and Security. Also aware of Connection pooling, Load balancing and Messaging; clustered server environment and familiar with system performance related tasks

    • Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

    • Experience in conducting NFR testing to evaluate application Recovery Time Objective [RTO] , Recover Point-in Objective [RPO]

    • Experience in collaborate, conduct, and support various testing initiatives such as System Testing, UAT, Performance

    • Ability to manage effectively in virtual environment where key team members and partners are in various time zones and locations

    • Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and implement change

    • 4+ years of JMS (Java Message Service) experience

    • 4+ years of Kafka Platform experience, Confluent Platform experience, or a combination of both

    • 3+ years of Oracle RDBMS experience

    • 3+ years of experience with secure DevOps and deployment automation to cloud environments

    • 3+ years of experience with Test Automation

    Job Expectations:

    • Ability to work onsite at one of the posted locations

    • Relocation assistance is not available

    Posting End Date:

    16 Jul 2025

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

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