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.
Experience in banking, capital markets, or other highly regulated industries.
Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or large-scale production operations.
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.
Familiarity with service management, ITIL, or modern operating model transformations.
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.