Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager

at Wells Fargo

• Job title: Senior Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $159,000 - $305,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Kafka, Microservices, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Iselin, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading large-scale modernization at Wells Fargo, overseeing critical Hogan mainframe migration efforts and managing global engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
• 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 moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate with, partner with and influence 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 to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering
• Hire, build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers

Requirements

• 6+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience
• 6+ Years of Architecture & Development Experience in Spring Boot Microservices
• 3+ Years of Mainframe Modernization & Migration Experience with building cloud native solutions
• Strong Understanding of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Experience Building LLM‑Integrated Workflows Using LangChain and LangGraph
• Deep Knowledge of Kafka Patterns Including Event Sourcing, Sliding‑Window Processing, and Real‑Time Reconciliation Frameworks
• Ability to Understand Client Needs Across Digital Channels (Mobile, Web) and Architect Backend‑for‑Frontend (BFF) Solutions that Align to User Journeys
• Experience Designing Solutions that Meet Regulatory, Compliance, Privacy, and Audit Requirements in Highly Regulated Environments
• 5+ Years of Stakeholder and Product Partner Interaction, Including Leading Globally Distributed Teams
• Strong Problem‑Solving Skills to Translate Complex Business and Customer Needs into Scalable Engineering Solutions
• Hands‑On Experience Developing Agents Using LLMs to Generate Code, Integrate into CI/CD Pipelines, and Automate Engineering Workflows
• Ability to Build and Deliver Working Prototypes (AI Agents, Microservices) Directly to the Team for Adoption and Extension
• Experience Designing and Operating Distributed, Highly Available, and Observable Systems, Including Performance Tuning and Scaling to 50K+ TPS

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement