Identity and Access Management Engineering Technology Director

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director to lead within Cybersecurity, specifically within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineering organization. This leader will advance engineering capabilities that enable secure, scalable identity services across a complex technology environment, shape the organization’s multi-cloud IAM strategy across Azure, GCP, AWS, and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), evolve toward a cloud‑agnostic, self‑service model, advance IAM capabilities for emerging technologies including cloud security and agentic solutions, and build an engineering organization positioned for the future.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Provide strategic and technical leadership for IAM engineering capabilities across multiple cloud platforms
• Drive development of a multi-cloud IAM strategy focused on portability, resiliency, standardization, and reducing dependency on individual cloud providers
• Advance self-service IAM capabilities that simplify application onboarding, provisioning, and configuration across cloud environments
• Partner across security, cloud, platform, architecture, and application engineering teams to establish reusable IAM patterns and services
• Help define the IAM engineering strategy for emerging agentic technologies and evolving cloud security requirements
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• 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
• 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
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies, or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
• Demonstrate proficiency in using AI‑assisted development and analysis tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and approved code‑centric agents)
• Leverage AI to accelerate system design, coding, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AI‑assisted outputs into solutions
• Understand and account for model limitations, security risks, and operational considerations
• Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments
• Ensure AI usage aligns with security, compliance, privacy, and ethical standards

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience
• 4+ years of experience leading Identity and Access Management engineering organizations or large‑scale identity platforms

Desired Qualifications

• Experience leading Identity and Access Management engineering organizations or large‑scale identity platforms
• Experience developing technology strategies across multiple cloud environments, including Azure, GCP, AWS, and/or OCP
• Experience building or leading cloud‑native platforms, shared services, or self‑service engineering capabilities
• Knowledge of emerging security considerations associated with AI and agentic technologies
• Experience designing highly available, resilient, and scalable security or identity solutions
• Experience partnering across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, application engineering, architecture, and risk organizations
• Experience modernizing legacy technology environments and defining future‑state engineering roadmaps
• Proven ability to lead engineering leaders and influence senior technology stakeholders across a large, complex organization
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical strategy and operational performance to senior executives and key stakeholders
• Excellent leadership, collaboration, organizational, and stakeholder management skills
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CyberArk Defender/Sentry, or related security certifications are preferred

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

Pay

$215,000.00 - $355,000.00 base pay range (salary range determined by location; may be considered for discretionary bonus, Restricted Share Rights, or other long‑term incentive awards)