Transformation Leader - Shared Services Technology

Wells Fargo is seeking a Specialty Software Engineering Senior Manager (Transformation Leader - Shared Services) who brings deep expertise in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Change Management, Release Management, and Deployment Governance Processes. The role requires experience leading release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, production deployment planning, rollback planning, and post-release retrospectives, as well as identifying, managing, and mitigating delivery risks, dependencies, environment constraints, and production issues.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of AI engineers, focusing on roles with moderate complexity and risk to build high-quality capabilities using modern technology.
• Partner with architects and experienced engineers to align with Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, understand next-generation domain architecture, and enable application migration paths (e.g., cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy).
• Act as an escalation partner for Tech Release Delivery Coordinators and teams to meet moderate- to high-risk deliverables, remove impediments, and foster constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement.
• Build engineering skills within the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment, and guide design as needed.
• Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within technology functions of moderate complexity, while identifying, managing, and mitigating technology and enterprise risk.
• Collaborate with Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative solutions, and articulate technical strategy while advocating for agile and DevOps practices.
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to meet commitments and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering.
• Hire, build, and guide a culture of talent development to ensure specialized domain experience and skills required to design and deliver innovative solutions, while conducting performance management for engineers and managers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience.
• 3+ years of direct people leadership experience managing Release Coordinators, Delivery Managers, Release Engineers, Scrum Masters, RTEs, or related technology delivery professionals.
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience coordinating large-scale, cross-functional releases involving multiple applications, platforms, and stakeholder groups.
• 3+ years of experience utilizing Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub Enterprise, Confluence, and CI/CD platforms to lead release coordination, change management, dependency management, deployment governance, and software delivery execution across multiple technology teams and products.

Job Expectations

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Locations: 300 S. Brevard St., Charlotte, North Carolina; 3075 Loyalty Circle, Columbus, Ohio.