Surveillance Lead Software Engineer

Surveillance Lead Software Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Surveillance Lead Software Engineer to lead the modernization of trade surveillance data platforms across asset classes including equities, fixed income, FX, and derivatives. This role blends strategic oversight with technical leadership to deliver scalable, regulator-ready solutions that support Market Conduct and Compliance functions. This role is responsible for leading a small-medium sized technology team from US & India locations within the delivery/execution accountability area.

This is a player-coach role having extensive technical/functional hands-on expertise and coach the team on technology and domain.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are company wide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and company wide 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 company wide 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

Desired

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience and deep understanding of Software Development Life cycle, data ingestion, storage, querying, processing and analysis
• Expertise in application integration, database analytics, compute, containers and Developer tools, Migration of Cloud Platforms
• Expertise in Data load management, importing & exporting data using SQL, ETL and Cloud Platforms
• Oracle & SQL DB expertise
• Experience developing, installing, and configuring Hadoop ecosystem components
• Good knowledge on ETL procedures to transform the data in the intermediate tables according to the business rules and functionality requirements

Job Expectations:

• Experience in working with ETL Tools - Job Schedulers
• Understanding of Data Integration Patterns
• Previous ownership of an application including responsibility for development, and maintenance
• Ability to actively engage business/technology partners, present, defend & challenge technical recommendations
• Strong demonstrated human relations skills to select, coach, develop, and mentor team members
• Be a model for continuous improvement & quality as a foundation throughout entire process
• Partner across teams to initiate, promote & implement best practices, drive excellence, and bring new technologies/methodologies/approaches to the team

Posting End Date: 20 Aug 2026

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