Job Description

About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $2.0 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo's vision is to satisfy our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,500 locations, 13,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 42 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 273,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 25 on Fortune's 2017 rankings of America's largest corporations.

Wells Fargo Technology

Technology at Wells Fargo is at the heart of what enables us to satisfy our customers' financial needs and help them succeed financially. The Wells Fargo Technology (WFT) team leads technology for one of the highest market cap financial services institutions in the world, helping 76.6 million customers conduct an average of 95 million transactions each day, helping more end-customers every day – both in the United States and across the globe – than any other division in our company.

Wells Fargo Technology's goal is to exceed Wells Fargo customers' expectations and directly enable them to succeed financially. Through technology and operations services, Wells Fargo Technology interacts with customers more than 12 billion times a year through branch, mobile, online, ATM and telephone transactions. Wells Fargo Technology impacts customers directly through systems availability and security, as well as indirectly, through Wells Fargo business partners who offer and deliver a myriad of products and services that meet customers financial needs. Wells Fargo Technology strives to be a competitive advantage for the company and effective information management is one example of where we can take our capabilities to a new level of excellence.

The Wells Fargo Technology team helps customers directly every time they do business with the company, delivering a true One Wells Fargo experience and ensuring their security, regardless of channel. We also help customers by remaining trusted partners working with all lines of business (LOB) to develop and deliver value-added products and services. To do this, Wells Fargo Technology draws on the talents and motivation of thousands of technology team members across the enterprise.

The Position

This role leads the 'Engineering Strategy, Architecture and Application Security' groups, and will be responsible to making a cohesive vision and execution plan across these different dimensions.

Engineering Strategy – This group comprises of the Distinguished engineers and Principle engineers across the Digital and Innovation portfolio. They are responsible for building the engineering road-map for the technology underpins our critical customer facing digital platforms. They will also be responsible for developing a roadmap for the Innovation platforms.

Architecture -This is the cluster of all the Solution and Application architects, who are responsible for developing the solution blue-prints for critical customer journeys and their evolution. Typically, this would be the GSA role, but with our evolution as a bank we will be moving to make these closer to delivery roles.

Application Security – This group comprises of the application security champions for the Digital and Innovation platforms. They are responsible for development of engineering frameworks and approaches that allow rapid and quick automation of solutions to vulnerabilities and new attack vectors

Responsibilities

Developing and executing a multiyear technology strategy supporting full range of digital investments
Running a world class Engineering team, singularly focused on customer success through conceptualization and build out of cutting-edge solutions that help amplify the outcomes
Engage effectively & leverage services provided by the Enterprise Chief Technology Office, Technology Infrastructure, Information Cyber Security Services teams to ensure a seamless service to the business.
Provide senior technology perspective on industry trends, competitive landscape and market/regulatory changes leveraging industry contacts, vendors, and strategic technology partner relationships.
Demonstrate business partner value by understanding the business and drive business outcomes through creative and efficient deployment of digital capabilities and platforms
Establishing and maintaining a profile as a senior technology leader both inside and outside the firm.
Serves as a role model demonstrating strong commitment to diversity & inclusion and Wells Fargo's culture and core values.

Critical Leadership Capabilities

Strategic Thinking

Explains specifically how changes in competitors, clients, and market segments affect own business or institution.
Translates broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans for units and individuals.
Creates plans that address specific segments or contrasts local market with other locations or segments.
Thinks 2-3 years ahead.

Driving Results

Fundamentally believes that 'great vision without execution is hallucination.'
Works to achieve goals while overcoming obstacles and/or planning for contingencies.
Shows urgency about reaching targets.
Reviews performance and progress on a regular basis to ensure team is achieving results.
Tests to see if goals are sufficiently challenging and implements corrective action based on deviations.

Collaborating and Influencing

Will bring a passion to change the culture within the technology organization alongside an ability to enter a culture where influence and collaboration is critical to driving change constructively.
Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach, where both act as true peers and decisions are shared.
Spends time identifying all stakeholders necessary and meets or connects with all of them, neglecting no one to shape a collective consensus.
Identifies opportunities to build relationships that will help others achieve their objectives and reaches out to those people or new people.

Building People Capability

Serves as a talent magnet for the technology organization within Wells Fargo Technology.
Dedicates time and energy to maintaining and growing followership of high-caliber, highly-motivated talent.
Gives critical feedback in behavioral terms and discusses suggestions for improvement.
Uses existing institutional programs and brings new practices and strategies to support employees' career growth in individual ways.
Uses a regular assessment and feedback process to focus the development effort.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of software engineering experience
8+ years of experience with strategic planning in technology
8+ years of experience with managing software development projects through complete release cycles
8+ years of leadership and people management experience in a large-scale technology environment

Desired Qualifications

A Masters degree or higher in computer science or engineering
8+ years of experience with Agile practices
5+ years of experience with systems architecture and design
5+ years of experience with modern software engineering technologies and tool sets
3+ years of managing a 100+ FTE engineering organization

Other Desired Qualifications

5+ years of executive leadership experience managing a complex technology organization of large scale including senior managers, managers, individual contributors and vendor resources across multiple global locations.
Demonstrated prior experiences in effective engagement with operating & management committee executives, board members and external stakeholders.
Strong relevant prior experiences in effective management of technology financials and risk.
Ability to effectively drive and lead change in an organization with Wells Fargo's size, scale and complexity.
Demonstrated experience in building, leading, developing and retaining a high performing team of leaders, strong technical experts and high performing professionals in a cultural environment that achieves results through team member engagement and satisfaction.
Demonstrated ability to manage a large portfolio of technology efforts across several major lines of business and effectively partner/influence at the senior executive level.
Strong knowledge and understanding of the financial, operational, technical and regulatory drivers impacting a complex and dynamic global technology environment.
Proven experience as a highly effective leader with credibility from demonstrating strong business and technology acumen.

Disclaimer

All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.
Wells Fargo is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

Engineering Strategy & Solution Architecture (Technology Executive) - Military Veterans

Dallas, TX

Dallas, TX