Wells Fargo & Company

Senior Engineering Manager

ISELIN, NJ Full time

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking Senior Engineering Manager within Customer Information Management (CIM), who will lead large‑scale modernization efforts, overseeing the migration of critical Hogan mainframe capabilities onto a modern, cloud‑ready platform that supports millions of customer transactions each day across all LOBs. This role provides strategic engineering and delivery leadership across more than 50 globally distributed engineers, spanning newly formed teams in the US and India. The manager will drive architectural alignment, engineering excellence, cross‑team coordination, and end‑to‑end execution for complex, high‑visibility modernization initiatives essential to the firm’s long‑term technology strategy. In addition, the Senior Engineering Manager will ensure platform resiliency, integration readiness, and consistent delivery of capabilities foundational to the firm’s customer servicing ecosystem.


In this role, you will:

  • 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

Required Skills

  • 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

Desired Skills

  • 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

Job Expectations

  • This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule
  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

  • 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

Posting End Date:

8 Mar 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

 

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.