Technology Director - Credit Risk

About this role:

The Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT) group provides technology solutions and support for Risk Audit Finance Marketing Human Resources Corporate Properties and Stakeholder Relations business addition EFT provides unique technology solutions and innovation for Wells Fargo Technology Enterprise Shared Services and Enterprise Data Management. This combined portfolio of applications and tools are continually engineered to meet the challenges of stability security scalability and speed.

Enterprise Risk & Finance Technology (ERFT) is responsible for providing the Chief Risk Officer and Chief Financial Officer with technology strategy development and delivery of technical capabilities in support of their business and product priorities. This diverse portfolio of capabilities spans multiple technology disciplines and strategic innovations. This group provides strategic enterprise-wide technology capabilities and enabling services to our line of business and management of the applications in terms of skills stability security scalability speed and cost.

As the Technology Director of Credit Risk Technology you will report to the CIO of ERFT. You will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of technology initiatives supporting Wells Fargos Corporate Credit Risk program including the management of credit risk exposures (including monitoring and reporting on aggregate credit exposures across groups legal entities geographies and jurisdictions) and the quality of credit risk management practices across the company. Wells Fargos Corporate Credit Risk oversight extends to all phases of a loans life cycle including origination underwriting risk analysis approval documentation monitoring loss recognition modification and collection activities. The Technology Director of Credit Risk will be responsible for the technical needs to support mandates such as BASEL FRY14M Consent Orders and more. You will lead technology engineering teams to design test and build safe efficient and innovative solutions for all Credit Risk requirements and coach your team to operate in an agile construct. This position will be responsible for leading the continued modernization of the organizations Enterprise Risk systems.

This role will also ensure appropriate governance oversight and compliance for all technology controls. You will work to influence many distinct functions and areas across Enterprise Risk Technology and Strategy and must be able to work with senior leaders of the organization to gain agreement and drive towards goals to be executed. The successful candidate will be an experienced leader with a background in Treasury management systems. This individual must be a highly motivated team player and a self-starter who can drive change in complex organizations partnering with a diverse group of stakeholders to achieve results. The candidate should demonstrate executive presence and be accustomed to presenting material to senior level executives. The candidate should be flexible be able to withstand challenges and adapt accordingly.

In this role you will:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 8 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
• 6 years of experience working in a hands-on software developer or architecting end-to-end solutions
• 6 years of experience working in large financial services organizations of 100k employees

Desired Qualifications:

• 10 years of formal management experience
• 8 years of experience in Credit Risk technology
• Strong executive presence facilitation skills drive for results attention to quality and detail and a synergetic attitude
• Ability to develop and deliver effective well-articulated written and oral communications (e.g. emails presentation materials) applying appropriate level of content/ detail dependent upon audience and intent
• Experience as a highly effective leader with credibility from demonstrating strong business and technology acumen
• Experience motivating and influencing groups or individuals across organizational boundaries to gain trust and confidence to make timely decisions
• Excellent communications interpersonal and presentations skills across technical and non-technical groups
• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing teams in a high-pressure environment
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities with a focus on proactive solutions
• Experience with Agile transformations
• Experience with Java Big Data or Open Architecture stack
• Experience in creating & delivering technology roadmaps
• Experience in managing on-shore and off-shore teams

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit Market Financial Crimes Operational Regulatory Compliance) which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring governance risk identification and escalation as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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