Platform Support Technology Director – Prime Brokerage

Wells Fargo

. Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads .

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeNew York City • New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $215,000 - $355,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
Serve as the primary production technology leader for Equity Prime Finance
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5–10 production engineers/SREs, ensuring skills growth, operational rigor, and high performance
Drive true SRE practices, including automation, observability, SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, root-cause reduction, and reliability engineering
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
Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
Own production readiness, deployment governance, and operational support standards
Build strong partnerships with trading desks, operations, and developers to align support priorities with business outcomes
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ 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
7+ years of hands-on production support and SRE engineering experience, including monitoring instrumentation, production deployments, incident management, and problem management
8+ years total in Production Support, SRE, or Production Engineering roles
5+ years of leadership experience managing teams of 5–10 engineers in high‑availability trading or market‑facing environments
8+ years of equity finance, trading, prime brokerage, or similar capital markets workflows

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

SRE practicesautomationobservabilitySLIsSLOserror budgetsroot-cause reductionreliability engineeringproduction supportincident management

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringteam developmentstrategic planningrisk managementcommunicationcollaborationtalent developmentoperational rigorcontinuous improvement