Software Engineering Senior Manager Chief Development Office

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager to join our Chief Development Office (CDO). You will bring your experience with Continuous Improvement/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline across multiple vendors to scale Next Gen capabilities and implement compliance controls across the enterprise. You will build and strengthen teams, facilitate cross-functional communication and alignment, partner with Product Managers/Owners to drive user satisfaction, and influence technology requirements and priorities.

You will make an impact by delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale, and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.

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 Dev Ops 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

* Demonstrate proficiency in using AI‑assisted development and analysis tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot and approved code‑centric agents)

* Leverage AI to accelerate system design, coding, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting

* Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AI‑assisted outputs into solutions

* Understand and account for model limitations, security risks, and operational considerations

* Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments

* Ensure AI usage aligns with security, compliance, privacy, and ethical standards

Required Qualifications:

* 7+ 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

* 6 + years of experience leading complex technology initiatives including those that are company wide with broad impact

* 6+ years of…