Software engineering Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager

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
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
• 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
• Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate and consult with the 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 for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
• Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products

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

Desired Qualifications:

• Should be strong on Java concepts and Spring implementation
• Expertise on Cloud Databases (preferably Azure)
• Good Exposure to Cloud Adoption Framework, Well Architected Framework.
• High level understanding and exposure to Infrastructure as Code
• Drive innovative solutions for the cloud product areas/products and contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the delivery of cloud services

Job Expectations:

• Strong years of experience in HOGAN, preferably in IDS
• Strong years of experience in programming using COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, VSAM,  z/OS Connect.
• Technical expertise in Sort, REXX, Fileaid, Omegamon, Abend-aid, Endeavor/Changeman, Easytrieve etc.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum method and exposure to latest tools like zUnit, Git, SonarQube, Checkmarx etc. is preferred
• Good experience in leading large to medium projects from the mainframe-end
• Exposure to mainframe modernization
• Sound analytical skills
• Excellent communication & organizational skills
• Proactive and can work independently
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements and functional design into technical implementation.
• Develop and maintain Hogan programs to specifications.  Includes development involving technologies such as COBOL, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2, MQ and Z/OS Connect on Hogan platform. Perform unit testing and ensure functionality meets the business requirements.
• Provide technical leadership to the team & mentor junior team members to help them deliver the work assigned to them and train them to uplift the capability.
• Provides functional & technical consultation and support in the development of computer applications and programs.
• Analyzes business requirements, designs and writes technical specifications to design or redesign computer solutions.
• Develops original and/or complex code - assists in preparing programming specifications and completes programming tasks to maintain or modify current programs or to develop less complex computer programs using COBOL and Hogan framework.
• Leads and/or performs modeling, simulations and analysis efforts for assigned projects.
• Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs.
• Participates in overall systems testing during the development SDLC phase.
• Confirms the migration of application code to the production environment after releases are installed.
• Develops new documentation, participates in the development of department technical procedures and designs user guidebooks as needed. These documents include restart instructions and flow diagrams.
• Should have experience working with Waterfall and Agile development methods

Posting End Date: 

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

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.