Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, including a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients. We focus on our clients' overall financial needs, with consideration and respect for their total relationship with Wells Fargo.

Markets provides solutions to clients with the means to manage their exposure through various derivatives, lending and cash products across Structured Products Group, Rates, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Municipal Products Group, Credit Sales & Trading.

About this role:

The Markets division is looking to accelerate automation and innovation through GenAI Agentic infrastructure. We are seeking a GenAI Agentic Engineer (Vice President level) to join a newly formed engineering team dedicated to designing, building, and deploying agentic solutions that transform business workflows across Sales & Trading. This role is central to our mission of embedding advanced GenAI agents into production environments, driving both business impact and technical excellence.

The successful candidate will partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable, and secure agentic systems. This is a unique opportunity to shape the next generation of AI-driven automation in a high-impact, front-office context.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Agent Design & Orchestration: Architect and deploy agents that autonomously execute complex, multi-step business workflows, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Tool Development & Integration: Build and integrate APIs/tools, enabling secure and reliable agent access to internal and external resources.
• Prompt Engineering: Develop advanced prompts and system instructions to define agent behavior, reasoning, and interaction patterns.
• State & Memory Management: Implement robust systems for tracking agent progress, learning from interactions, and maintaining context across workflows.
• Evaluation & Debugging: Create frameworks to assess agent reasoning, troubleshoot complex behaviors, and ensure system reliability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product, data science, and business teams to identify automation opportunities and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Documentation & Compliance: Deliver high-quality software, documentation, and model validation artifacts, adhering to Agile SDLC and all relevant risk and compliance standards.

In this role, you will:

• Proactively participate in complex software design and development activities within an Agile environment.
• Contribute to large-scale project planning, balancing short- and long-term objectives.
• Use advanced AI, quantitative, and engineering techniques to solve challenging business problems.
• Meet deliverables while adhering to policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and project managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
• Effectively communicate with and build consensus among all project stakeholders.

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 expert level Python and core software engineering principles.
• Hands-on experience with major GenAI platforms (e.g., Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock) or open-source frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen).
• Deep knowledge of LLM and API integration, including RESTful API design.
• Experience with Vibe coding a plus!
• Demonstrated systems thinking and experience designing complex, event-driven applications.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively with business, product, and technology teams.
• Prior experience with application development in banking, capital markets, or sales & trading environments.
• Experience with container-based deployment (e.g., Docker, OpenShift) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure).
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) and best practices in testing and observability.
• Experience building and deploying agentic or event-driven systems in production.
• Strong, hands‑on Java development experience with modern frameworks and best‑practice engineering principles.
• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.

Job Expectations:

• This position is subject to FINRA background screening requirements. Candidates must successfully complete and pass a background check prior to hire. In accordance with FINRA rules, individuals who are subject to statutory disqualification are not eligible to be associated with a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. Successful candidates must also meet and comply with ongoing regulatory obligations, which include periodic screening and mandatory reporting of certain incidents.
• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process.
• Keywords: google agent space, cursor, vibe coding, anthropic, claude code, chatgpt, copilot, SecDb, Athena, Quartz, GenAI, LLM, agentic solutions developer

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

Posting End Date:

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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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