Software Engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager who will be a part of the Technology Resiliency & Disaster Recovery Cyber Exercise Team and will lead a a team that participates in all aspects of the software development life cycle which includes requirements gathering, estimating, technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support. The candidate will play a critical role in the resiliency program suite of products within our Resiliency Solutions portfolio. The role will also engage key resiliency stakeholders involved in activities such as BCP, DR exercises/tests, and cyber resiliency.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
• 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
• This role will drive the planning, design, construction, testing, and implementation of our Application Resiliency program suite of products.  Develop reusable Python, Java, and Angular UI components, frameworks, and libraries on web and windows platforms.
• Support the full systems life cycle management (e.g., analyses, technical requirements, design, coding, testing, implementation of systems and applications software, etc.).
• Ability to influence and build relationships with LOB stakeholders, technology CIO leadership, external service providers, and architecture teams
• Support the implementation of a multi-year Cyber Resiliency exercise and testing program that provides the company with the sufficient opportunity to assess enterprise cyber resilience in a comprehensive end-to-end manner
• Direct and maintain sound cyber resiliency governance program, processes, policies, procedures, and best practices for enterprise exercises and testing
• Reinforce the establishment of the enterprise exercise framework and monitor compliance of enterprise-wide testing related to Enterprise Cyber Resiliency 
• Play a critical role in transforming the cyber resiliency of the businesses and functions by evaluating capabilities, identifying weaknesses, and providing guidance on potential improvements
• Engage in dialogue with application and technology support leaders to ensure awareness of deficits in existing cyber resiliency plans and capabilities and the improvements required
• Support the participation of leadership and lines of businesses in exercises and compliance with testing
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies
• Direct and execute on exercises on behalf of Enterprise Resiliency
• Work closely with CIO, Disaster Recovery, Technology Resiliency, and Cyber leadership teams to identify needs, gain support, and prioritize projects for exercising, documentation, technology, and other requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of Leadership experience
• 4+ years of technology experience
• 4+ years of business systems analysis experience, project management experience or a combination of both
• 3+ years of Business Continuity (BC) Planning/IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Experience
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience with people development skills to hire, coach, develop, and mentoring team members
• Strong demonstrated experience in Business Continuity Planning processes and background in Cyber Resiliency activities
• Experience capturing and documenting complex business and functional requirements
• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum Concepts
• Familiarity with Cloud Concepts

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong experience delivering results in a fast-paced, highly regulated, deadline driven environment
• Solid analytical skills including analyzing complex data
• Advanced understanding of Agile principles like iterations, sprints, user stories, and backlogs.
• Experience working in an Agile team environment using Jira
• Ability to influence, partner, and negotiate with business partners to gain commitment to accomplish business goals
• Experience managing multiple medium to large sized technology development efforts within a major line of business
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel deliverables to completion within deadlines, and experience with communicating progress to senior leadership
• Experience and success with obtaining buy-in from clients to engage and prioritize work
• Very strong technical knowledge with respect to tech stack/application architecture.
• Experience with working with a large global organization
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience working with Service Now or equivalent
• Experience working with Microsoft Teams or equivalent
• Windows, Linux Server OS, Network & routing topology, & IT Support fundamentals
• Physical and virtual server technology fundamentals
• Experience working with Cloud technologies
• Advance Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) skills
• Project management skills
• Experience with Bare Metal Restore/Clean Rebuild
• Java experience
• Oracle / Mongo database experience
• Azure development experience
• Web development experience (Angular or React preferred)

Job Expectations:

• Ability to occasionally work outside of regular business hours
• Willingness to work on-site at stated location in a Hybrid flex model
• This position is not available for visa sponsorship

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Posting End Date:

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

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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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