Technology Executive

About the role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Executive for HR Data Engineering, 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 Executive will build upon an established foundation while driving modernization, innovation, and alignment with enterprise data and technology strategies. This leader will play a key role in advancing cloud adoption, strengthening data governance and analytics capabilities, and positioning HR data as a strategic asset across the organization. Additionally, this role will drive the adoption of artificial intelligence and generative AI capabilities to accelerate delivery, enhance data-driven insights, and unlock new business value while ensuring responsible use aligned with enterprise governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide vision and set direction for all technology development and infrastructure or service components for a defined business unit.
• Manage and allocate appropriate people and financial resources to ensure projects are completed within committed time and budget, aligning with strategic objectives.
• Develop and monitor long-range information technology plans and policies consistent with the strategic objectives and plans of the business unit.
• Identify capacity planning, efficiency, availability, business enablement, and time to market.
• Provide comprehensive consultation to senior management regarding business requirements.
• Recommend innovations that anticipate the future directions of both business and information technology.
• Provide technology solutions for the large business unit, including application portfolio standardization and rationalization.
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals, including senior managers.
• Lead teams 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.
• 6+ 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 of 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).

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).

Pay

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$290,000.00 - $500,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below.

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