Technology Director - (Foundational Hosting Platforms)

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director who is responsible for Solution Architecture and Governance across the Foundational Hosting Platforms Product Line which includes Products such as Data Hosting, Middleware, Compute, Storage, Data Center, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery.

The CTO Architecture team focuses on driving product direction through the creation of solution architectures and archetypes. This role is accountable for application portfolio management and lifecycle management of CTO applications as well as leading cross functional teams in creating business value solutions and influencing executives as well as engineers. This role will work in a challenging, fast paced, and highly technical environment Responsibilities include:

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team of architect managers and architects.
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities.
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders.
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans.
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of enterprise architecture practices.
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers.
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing.
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives.
• Develop strategies for hiring talent.
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers.
• Lead team to achieve objectives.
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums.
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership.
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy.
• Championing technology strategy and architecture.
• Acts in a strategic role across assigned Foundational Hosting Platform domains, describing the current state and defining the target state and transition strategy for the organizations processes, and technology, and guiding or leading initiatives to achieve these transitions.
• Acting as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) around compute, storage, and data hosting technologies.
• Applies knowledge and expertise as consultants to Executive staff and cross-functional teams from the business and technology groups.
• Experience with one or more of Azure, Google and AWS Cloud Services – leading design and architecture.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and advancements within existing technologies.
• Provides leadership and mentoring to Architects and engineers to grow architecture talent.
• Ability to visualize and plan for outcomes in the future and sustain work in achieving the outcomes. Involves an ability to support short-term trade-offs to achieve longer term gain.
• Lead strategic planning and architectural planning for infrastructure technologies.
• Provide expertise and leadership in selection and management of vendors to provide low-cost, high efficiency solutions, which are size-appropriate for the current environment while being able to expand as the organization grows.
• Provide leadership in the development of IT policies and operational procedures that affect the reliability of the IT infrastructure.
• Maintain and enhance professional expertise and skills through participation in appropriate educational and training seminars related to Information Technology.
• Support OpEx planning and execution with the Leader of infrastructure, heavily focused on building financial models in partnership with Finance.
• Responsible for budgets within his/her/their department and resource planning to meet project objectives.

Required Qualifications, US:

• 10+ years of Infrastructure architecture experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 8+ years of leadership and people management experience in a large-scale technology environment
• 8+ years of experience architecting hybrid cloud, data center design and modernizing technology infrastructure landscape.
• 8+ years of experience with strategic planning in technology
• 3+ years of experience researching new technologies, performing proof-of-concepts, and recommending solutions.

Desired Qualifications:

• Cloud specific certifications, e.g. AWS Solution Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Well versed in Virtualization, Public/Private Cloud, Operating System, Software Defined Storage, Containerization, and Infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrable experience in Data Center migration and related tooling.
• Hands on knowledge to support automated infrastructure instantiation of profiles such as VMware,  PowerFlex, Nutanix
• Deep experience with VMware products including ESXi, NSX-T, vRA, vROPS, vCenter, Redhat/Windows Server, Satellite, SCCM, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, OpenShift Enterprise, NetApp and PowerFlex Storage.
• Familiar and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code via CI/CD and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Packer.
• Familiar with relational and non-relational DB hosting platforms such as Mongo DB, Oracle Exadata, Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience working in an agile, product-oriented structure
• Ability to interact with all levels with the organization
• Strong comprehension within the compute, network, and storage technology domains

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• Telecommuting is not an option for this position; hybrid model allowable
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Compensation Range - 207,900 - 431,900

Posting End Date: 

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

Applicants with Disabilities

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Drug and Alcohol Policy

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