Senior Lead Technology Resiliency Engineer

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Technology Resiliency Engineer. We are building a team of senior technology resiliency engineers to define and shape the future of how technology operates at scale within a global financial institution.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise technology resiliency strategy, aligned to business critical services, regulatory expectations, and long-term technology roadmaps.

• Establish resiliency design principles and patterns for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem platforms (e.g., multi-region, multi-AZ, active/active, degradation strategies).

• Influence architecture decisions to ensure resiliency, recoverability, and operability are built in from inception-not retrofitted.

• Partner with enterprise and domain architects to embed resiliency requirements into standards, reference architectures, and engineering practices.

• Support identification and mapping of Important Business Services and underpinning technology dependencies.

• Translate business impact tolerances into actionable technology recovery objectives (RTO, RPO, MTO).

• Audit end-to-end service resilience, identifying single points of failure across applications, data, infrastructure, vendors, and people.

• Drive remediation strategies for material resiliency gaps, balancing risk reduction with real-world delivery constraints.

• Engage as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation.

• Review major platform and system designs from a resiliency and operability perspective.

• Promote modern resiliency practices such as: Chaos engineering and failure injection, Automation-first recovery, Observability and service-level indicators, Immutable infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code.

• Guide the adoption of resiliency tooling and metrics at scale.

• Shape the firm's approach to resilience testing, including scenario-based testing, disaster recovery exercises, and severe-but-plausible events.

• Design and participate in enterprise simulation exercises involving technology and business stakeholders.

• Drive a culture of continuous learning through post-incident analysis focused on systemic improvement rather than blame.

• Ensure lessons learned feed directly into architecture, standards, and engineering practices.

• Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit to ensure resiliency practices meet internal policy and external regulatory expectations.

• Contribute to regulatory responses, exams, and remediation programs related to operational and technology resilience.

• Help define meaningful, decision-useful resiliency metrics and management reporting.

• Contribute to the long-term evolution of the bank's technology operating model.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

• 7+ years of experience in large-scale technology engineering, architecture, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.

• 7+ years' experience with: Cloud and hybrid architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent), Disaster recovery and availability patterns, Data replication and consistency models, Observability, monitoring, and incident management.

• 7+ years' experience influencing architecture and design decisions at scale.

• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems in complex enterprise environments.

• Familiarity with service management, ITIL, or modern operating model transformations.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in banking, capital markets, or other highly regulated industries.

• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or large-scale production operations.

• Experience with chaos engineering or large-scale resilience testing.

• Familiarity with service management, ITIL, or modern operating model transformations.

Job Expectations

• Resiliency & Risk Experience: Hands-on experience with operational resilience, technology resilience, DR, or business continuity in regulated environments.

• Ability to translate business impact into technical recovery strategies: Familiarity with regulatory expectations related to technology and operational resilience (e.g., US, UK, EU financial regulators).

• Leadership & Communication: Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical and executive audiences.

• Experience operating in highly matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders: Credibility to challenge technology decisions constructively and pragmatically.

• Track record of driving change through influence rather than authority.

Pay Range

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

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
• Commute benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement