Technology Director Lifecycle Management

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director to lead Lifecycle Management, managing end-to-end lifecycle mitigation of infrastructure and platforms including storage, compute, and virtualization transitions. This role has direct accountability for end-of-life (EOL) mitigation, workload repositioning, and capacity optimization. The Technology Director will define and execute the enterprise strategy to eliminate unsupported technologies across the environment, leading large-scale, multi-year remediation initiatives that reduce operational and cyber risk, strengthen platform resilience, and ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.

The role leads a team of Senior and Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, and third-party subject matter experts to exit EOL and vendor end-of-support (VEoS) infrastructure platforms from Heritage and NextGen data centers. The team will identify, plan, and execute evacuations spanning OS, ESX, VXRail, and Storage to mitigate EOL/VEoS exposure. Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills are required for interactions across the organization, including Executives, Engineers, Application Managers, and CIO leads in CIO Sector teams, Application Development, Cyber Security, and Compute Engineering and Operations. Horizontal alignment and coordination across CIO Organizations/Lines of Business, Cyber Security, Compute, Network, Storage, and Third Parties is essential.

The selected candidate will have deep vertical expertise in Compute, Cyber, and Network, as well as experience with public cloud technologies. The team will collaborate with horizontal functions to assess the legacy application portfolio and define exit plans, ensuring precision execution with no unplanned business interruption.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technology lifecycle management strategy and roadmap.
• Govern the full lifecycle of hardware, software, SaaS platforms, and technology assets.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to evaluate, select, and optimize technology investments.
• Drive asset, licensing, vendor, and cost-management practices to maximize ROI.
• Lead lifecycle planning for upgrades, refreshes, modernization initiatives, and end-of-life transitions.
• Establish governance standards, automation, reporting, and compliance controls across the technology portfolio.
• Build and lead high-performing teams responsible for lifecycle operations and continuous improvement.
• Define and own lifecycle execution across platforms, including storage (PowerFlex → PowerMax), compute, and virtualization environments.
• Drive EOL/VEoS mitigation through workload repositioning and execute evacuation of workloads from ESX and other aging platforms.
• Engineer capacity-aware workload placement, identifying and establishing new clusters within existing network segments to enable seamless migration (HCX / vMotion) and avoid IP readdressing.
• Define mitigation strategies, apply them to applications, and lead cutovers, including:
  • Swing active workload to backup site while primary site is migrated.
  • Lift/shift, physical to virtual, and virtual to physical transitions.
• Define data replication strategies, including initial synchronization and ongoing deltas/changes maintained until cutover.
• Define multiple data mitigation strategies and use cases for database, object, NAS, backup, and unstructured user data.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 10+ years of large-scale enterprise data center and/or application exit experience.
• 4+ years of direct management experience leading in a data center organization.
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Infrastructure Services experience (compute, network, storage, firewall).
• 10+ years of leadership in a hosting environment, especially in a large financial institution.
• Proven track record of success leading complex data center exit or similar initiatives for large financial services firms.
• Technology lifecycle management and roadmap planning expertise.
• Vendor, contract, and licensing management experience.
• Financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization experience.
• Cloud platform knowledge (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Risk, compliance, and technology governance experience.
• Experience driving automation and operational excellence initiatives.
• Strong executive communication, change management, and influence skills.

Job Expectations

This position does not offer visa sponsorship.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule.