Lead Business Execution Consultant - Payment Initiation and Network Gateway Capability Lead, Payments Transformation

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking two Lead Business Execution Consultants to join the Payments Change Delivery team. These positions will support a critical workstream of the Payments Transformation program to migrate from an antiquated legacy environment to a modern, AI enabled, distributed architecture ecosystem while enabling Payments Operations to transition to a target-state operating model. One of these strategically critical roles will drive operational product leadership for the Payment Initiation and Network Gateway capability, with the other leading the Payment Processing Execution capability. This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship. Candidate must reside within a reasonable commute to a location listed in the posting.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational readiness activities for Payments Operations teams, ensuring successful implementation of platform enhancements and releases through coordination of production parallel testing events, support for operational procedure and job aid development, assessment of process and control impacts, and validation of business readiness to ensure effective execution and risk mitigation.
• Define, refine, and prioritize the team backlog aligned with Program PI objectives
• Write clear features for dev team to decompose into user stories, define acceptance criteria, and ensure business context
• Work with the team to scope iteration goals and balance capacity vs. commitment
• Manage the Jira backlog and ensure proper Jira hygiene
• Identify opportunities to leverage capabilities across value streams
• Lead support functions or operations for multiple business groups and contribute to large scale strategic initiatives
• Ensure efficiency, quality, cost effectiveness of solutions, and pipeline management relating to assigned operations
• Research moderately complex business, operational, and strategic initiatives that require analytical skills, basic knowledge of organizational strategy and Business Execution, and understanding of international business
• Work independently to make recommendations for support function by providing support and leadership
• Assist in the planning and execution of a variety of programs and initiatives that may include risk mitigation, efficiency, and customer experience
• Provide leadership in management of relationships and implementation of programs, services, and initiatives with cross functional business partners
• Supports requirements definition via operational stakeholder elicitation, collaboration with Tech partners on black-box testing, and analysis of data to derive requirements
• Serve as the operational requirements lead for assigned features, driving comprehensive analysis, due diligence, and problem definition to produce high-quality requirements that reduce ambiguity, support decision-making, and facilitate efficient technology delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Dev Team partners to refine feature requirements and support translation into user stories
• Identify cross-impacts/interdependencies and collaborate with Value Stream Leads and Capability Product Managers to manage effectively
• Acts as proxy for customers and business stakeholders within the team
• Ensures deliverables support capability, product, or value stream outcomes
• Work effectively in