About this role:

The COO Technology group delivers technology solutions for the Chief Operating Office, supporting operations, control executives, strategic execution, business continuity, resiliency, data services, regulatory relations, customer experience, enterprise shared services, supply chain management, and corporate properties. Our mission is to modernize and optimize technology platforms for these critical functions.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering organization as we modernize our data platforms and products on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will own strategy and execution for enterprise data migration and build-out on GCP—including streaming and batch pipelines, data lake/lakehouse, governance, and data products—while managing high-performing teams of data engineers, platform engineers, and SRE/DevOps engineers. This role partners closely with architecture, cybersecurity, risk, and line-of-business stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant, scalable, and cost-efficient data capabilities across the firm.

In this role, you will:

• Lead & Develop Teams: Manage, coach, and grow multiple agile teams (data engineering, platform engineering, SRE/DevOps, QA) to deliver high-quality, resilient data capabilities; build a culture of talent development, engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
• Own the GCP Data Platform Roadmap: Define and drive the roadmap for GCP-based data platforms (BigQuery, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataproc/Spark, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataplex, Data Catalog)
• Migrate Legacy Workloads: Lead the migration of legacy data pipelines, warehouses, and integration workloads to GCP (including CDC, batch & streaming, API-first data products, and event-driven architectures)
• Engineering & Architecture: Partner with enterprise, data, and security architects to align on target state architecture, data modeling (dimensional, Data Vault), and domain-driven data products; establish and enforce DataOps and DevSecOps practices (CI/CD, IaC/Terraform, automated testing, observability)
• Security, Risk & Compliance: Embed defense-in-depth—VPC Service Controls, private IP, CMEK/Cloud KMS, DLP, IAM least privilege, tokenization, data masking, and lineage; ensure adherence to financial services regulations and standards (e.g., SOX, GLBA, BCBS 239, model governance)
• Reliability & Cost Management: Define SLOs/SLIs, runbooks, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning for BigQuery/Dataflow/Spark workloads; optimize cost and performance via partitioning/clustering, workload management, autoscaling, and right-sizing
• Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Influence senior technology leaders and business stakeholders; translate business needs into platform roadmaps and measurable outcomes; manage budgets, resource plans, and strategic vendor/partner engagements
• Enablement & Adoption: Scale onboarding of lines of business to the platform, including templates, blueprints, guardrails, and self-service developer experience

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Data 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
• 3+ years of direct report management experience of multi-disciplinary engineering teams including, but not limited to, assigning tasks, conducting performance evaluations and determining salary adjustments
• 6+ years hands-on in data engineering and platform build-outs using modern stacks and automation
• 4+ years of production experience on GCP with several of: BigQuery, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataproc/Spark, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataplex, Data Catalog
• 6+ years of experience with programming and data skills: SQL plus one or more of Python, Java, Scala; solid understanding of data modeling and data quality frameworks
• 4+ years of experience with DevOps/DataOps proficiency: CI/CD, Terraform/IaC, automated testing, observability, GitOps
• 6+ years of experience leading large-scale data platform migrations or modernizations in regulated environments
• 3+ years leading AI/ML and Generative AI data initiatives

Desired Qualifications:

• Certifications: Google Professional Data Engineer and/or Google Professional Cloud Architect (plus: CKA/CKAD, OpenShift, Azure/AWS exposure)
• Experience with dbt, Great Expectations, OpenLineage/Marquez, DataHub, or similar data quality/lineage/governance tools
• Experience with Kafka/Confluent and event-driven architectures; Databricks on GCP and/or Vertex AI (MLOps) exposure
• Security-by-design: IAM, KMS/CMEK, VPC Service Controls, private services, network segmentation, DLP, and sensitive data handling (PII/PCI)
• Financial services domain knowledge (e.g., risk reporting, liquidity, AML/fraud, trading, consumer banking) and familiarity with SOX, GLBA, BCBS 239, model risk management practices
• Track record driving change management in large, matrixed organizations and establishing platform guardrails and golden paths at scale
• Communicate crisply with engineers through executives; create clear decision frameworks and status for senior leadership
• Operate effectively in a matrix; influence without direct authority and build trusted partnerships across Technology, Risk, and Business
• Thrive in ambiguity; facilitate structured problem-solving to converge on pragmatic solutions
• Make high-quality decisions quickly with a results-oriented, collaborative leadership style
• Serve as an internal thought leader on GCP data platforms, data products, and modern engineering

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

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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