About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking Technology Director.

The COO Technology group delivers technology solutions for the Chief Operating Office, supporting operations, control executives, strategic execution, business continuity, resiliency, data services, regulatory relations, customer experience, enterprise shared services, supply chain management, and corporate properties. Our mission is to modernize and optimize technology platforms for these critical functions.

We are seeking a Technology Director to lead Data Platform Architecture and chair the COO Data Platform Architecture Forum, a strategic governance and collaboration initiative within Wells Fargo’s COO Technology division. This role is pivotal in driving data platform modernization, accelerating migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and ensuring architectural consistency across verticals. The ideal candidate is a visionary leader with deep expertise in cloud-native data architectures, AI/ML enablement, and enterprise-scale governance.

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• 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 software engineering 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 engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• 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

Platform Engineering & Architecture

• Design and implement real-time and batch data architectures on GCP.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and orchestration frameworks for AI/ML, BI, and Generative AI use cases.
• Implement event-driven architectures leveraging Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and Cloud Composer.
• Build ingestion frameworks for structured/unstructured data using Apache Beam, Dataflow templates, and GCS.
• Enable semantic layers and knowledge graphs for context-aware dataflows supporting advanced AI systems.
• Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to ensure readiness for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation.
• Implement data observability, lineage, and governance using Dataplex, Data Catalog, and Looker.

ADS Architecture Forum Leadership

• Chair the ADS Architecture Forum to align 16 migration efforts across COO verticals.
• Drive collaboration among architects to share patterns, reusable components, and best practices.
• Identify and resolve technical blockers through cross-team problem-solving.
• Provide executive visibility into progress, risks, and resource needs.
• Promote proven solutions for enterprise-wide adoption and accelerate time-to-production.

Required Qualifications 

• 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology strategic leadership experience.
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience.
• 8+ years in data engineering and cloud-based data architecture at scale.
• 8+ years defining and executing data strategy for Data Lakes and Warehouses.
• 3+ years leading AI/ML and Generative AI initiatives.
• 5+ years delivering real-time data platforms using GCP services (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Composer).
• 5+ years with data mesh architectures, query federation tools (Starburst, Trino), and decentralized governance.
• 8+ years with data contracts, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• 4+ years building high-performing data engineering teams and fostering innovation.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architectures and real-time analytics use cases.
• Hands-on experience with GCP stack: BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, GCS.
• Familiarity with BI & ML tools: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Vertex AI Feature Store, BigQuery ML.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders.
• Experience in large financial services organizations (100k+ employees).
• Deep experience in DevSecOps best practices and modern CI/CD toolchains (Harness, GitActions).
• Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, and strategic thinking.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven track record of leading teams in high-pressure environments.
• Experience with Agile transformations and technology roadmaps.
• Familiarity with Java, Big Data, or Open Architecture stack.
• Experience managing onshore and offshore teams.

Job Expectations

• Lead and scale high‑performing engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable platforms aligned to enterprise strategy.
• Define and govern modern cloud, data, and AI architectures on GCP, enabling real‑time and batch analytics, AI/ML, and Generative AI solutions.
• Partner with business, technology, and executive leaders to align roadmaps, drive adoption, and remove delivery and architectural blockers.
• Oversee engineering standards, risk management, financial planning, and resourcing to ensure operational excellence and regulatory readiness.
• Build a culture of innovation and talent development through strong hiring, mentorship, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
• Ability to travel up to 20%

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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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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