Wells Fargo

DevOps Technology Director

Wells Fargo

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: CharlotteNew JerseyNorth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $215,000 - $355,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Provide overall engineering strategy, design authority, and execution oversight for data center exit programs and modernization initiatives.
  • Define and drive engineering patterns, solution architectures, and technical guardrails supporting DCMS activities.
  • Lead platform integration work in partnership with cross‑enterprise leaders, ensuring shared platform alignment and consistent adoption patterns.
  • Direct geographically dispersed engineering teams and partner groups to deliver time‑critical migration milestones.
  • Remove blockers, drive technical decision‑making, and ensure predictable, coordinated execution across Technology, Architecture, Product, and Platform teams.
  • Influence enterprise priorities and orchestrate alignment across complex stakeholder environments.
  • Oversee solution designs across Java, Big Data, open architecture, and cloud‑ready stacks.
  • Ensure engineering outputs meet standards for scalability, resiliency, availability, and long‑term sustainability.
  • Identify engineering, architectural, and delivery risks; implement proactive controls to ensure safe and disruption‑free migrations.
  • Maintain engineering integrity across observability, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation capabilities.
  • Manage managers and senior individual contributors in a high‑complexity, high‑pressure environment.
  • Develop engineering talent, promote a culture of accountability, and ensure strong team cohesion across onshore and offshore teams.
  • Deliver clear, concise, insight‑driven updates to senior leadership.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent (work experience, training, military, education).
  • 4+ years of management or leadership experience.
  • 4+ years of DevOps and Platform Engineering tooling implementation and configuration experience
  • 4+ years of hands‑on software engineering or solution architecture experience.
  • 10+ years of technology experience, including 4+ years leading teams in a financial services environment.
  • Deep experience leading engineering, architecture, or platform teams in large‑scale, complex technology environments.
  • Strong technical background across modern languages and distributed systems (Go, Python, Java), with the ability to guide teams building APIs, automation, and platform services.
  • Strong background in modernization initiatives, cloud‑ready architectures, and infrastructure automation.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC (e.g. Terraform, Crossplane), CI/CD, GitOps, and enterprise observability practices.
  • Experience with CI/CD, observability tooling, automation frameworks, IaC (Terraform, Ansible, etc.), and enterprise platform governance.
  • Proven success leading multi-region engineering delivery for complex, time‑sensitive programs.
  • Demonstrated success managing onshore and offshore teams and vendor engineering models.
  • Experience creating and delivering technology roadmaps and strategic engineering plans.
  • Experience operating within regulated or risk‑sensitive environments.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaBig DataGoPythonKubernetesOpenShiftTerraformAnsibleCI/CDGitOps
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic leadershipteam cohesioncommunicationinfluenceproblem-solvingdecision-makingaccountabilitycollaborationrisk management