Infrastructure Engineering Senior Manager - Data Protection

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Manager of Data Protection Engineering to lead the transformation of the enterprise data protection platform. This leader will drive the modernization of backup, recovery, cyber resilience, and data security capabilities across on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise data protection strategy, aligning with cloud, cyber resilience, and infrastructure modernization initiatives
• Lead the transition from traditional backup architectures to modern, policy-driven platforms leveraging cloud-native protection services, immutable storage, and cyber recovery capabilities
• Drive adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud data protection solutions across GCP, Azure, and AWS environments
• Develop long-term roadmaps that improve recovery outcomes, reduce operational complexity, and optimize infrastructure costs
• Ensure data protection services support evolving business, regulatory, and resiliency requirements
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of engineers focused on platform engineering, automation, cloud integration, and service reliability
• Establish engineering standards, automation frameworks, and operational practices that improve scalability and reduce manual effort
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
• Partner with Cybersecurity teams to enhance ransomware protection, cyber recovery, immutable storage strategies, and recovery testing programs
• Ensure engineering solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements
• Lead resiliency assessments and recovery readiness initiatives to improve recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO)
• Identify and mitigate operational, security, and technology risks across the data protection ecosystem
• Serve as the executive engineering partner for strategic vendors including Cohesity and cloud providers
• Influence product roadmaps, feature prioritization, and platform enhancements to meet enterprise requirements
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends in cyber resilience, cloud backup, AI-driven operations, and data security
• Drive technology lifecycle management and modernization efforts across the backup and recovery portfolio

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Infrastructure 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
• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure or platform engineering teams supporting mission-critical environments
• Deep expertise in enterprise data protection, backup and recovery, cyber resilience, and business continuity solutions
• Strong experience with Cohesity and modern enterprise backup platforms, including Rubrik, NetBackup, Data Domain, or similar technologies
• Experience protecting workloads across hybrid cloud environments including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Knowledge of cloud-native backup, disaster recovery, immutable storage, cyber vaulting, and ransomware recovery architectures
• Experience developing and executing technology modernization and cloud transformation roadmaps
• Strong understanding of automation, Infrastructure as Code, API integration, and platform engineering practices
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and communicate technology strategy to senior leadership
• Experience partnering with Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, and Architecture organizations
• Strong strategic planning, organizational leadership, and vendor management skills
• Experience operating large-scale infrastructure environments with high availability, resiliency, and regulatory requirements
• Agile delivery and product-oriented operating model experience preferred
• Exceptional verbal, written, and executive communication skills