Technology Director-HR Data, Analytics, and Reporting Systems

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director for the HR Data, Analytics and Reporting Services. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the next evolution of HR data platforms and services within a large, complex enterprise environment. The Technology Director will build on an established foundation while driving modernization, innovation, and alignment with enterprise data and technology strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• 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
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• 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
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Requirements

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience
• 5+ years of enterprise data warehousing, including batch/streaming processing, workload management, scalable storage, and standardized access (SQL/APIs)
• 5+ years Hands-on leadership of data quality, metadata, and governance-aligned delivery in partnership with risk/compliance
• 5+ years of experience operating data platforms in cloud/hybrid environments aligned to enterprise controls and shared responsibility models
• Experience partnering with business and technology leaders; clearly communicate priorities, risks, and tradeoffs
• Experience using automation and GenAI to improve delivery and productivity while operating within governance guardrails (validation, monitoring, lifecycle management)

Desired Qualifications

• Cloud modernization: Experience evolving legacy DW/ETL toward scalable, cloud-based architectures
• Modern platform patterns: Familiarity with lakehouse/unified analytics platforms and consolidation strategies
• Data product mindset: Defines data products with clear ownership, SLAs, and governed self-service access
• GenAI for engineering: Uses GenAI to accelerate development (code, testing, documentation) with strong safety and review practices
• Metadata & lineage: Improves discoverability and trust through modern metadata and lineage practices
• Platform evolution: Experience with elastic, multi-tenant data platforms optimized for cost and performance
• Vendor & risk management: Manages third-party/platform risk in regulated environments (resiliency, controls, compliance)