Senior Lead Systems Operations Engineer Automation SME (Executive Director)

Wells Fargo Bank

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London - UK

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 30+ days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Automation SME to join our Observability and Automation Transformation team in this role you will be responsible for increasing stability improving resiliency reducing recover times and improving customer satisfaction via the deployment of world class monitoring good hygiene practices and the adoption of automation at scale.

You will partner and collaborate with platform owners CIO teams production support staff and senior management to modernise the monitoring landscape embrace automation standardise the environment and enable AI a senior member of the team you will also me expected to mentor and guide junior and new team members guiding them technically and through the process of navigating change.


In this role you will:

  • Work with our partners to ensure known defects are documented and remediated.

  • Work with our partners to ensure a structured SDLC process is in place.

  • Work with our partners to migrate all scheduled jobs to Autosys.

  • Work with our partners to ensure our DR environments are for-fir-purpose.

  • Work with our partners to ensure our production access is safe and secure.

  • Work with Infrastructure partners to ensure our applications have a read-only access model.

  • Work with our partners to adopt existing automation capabilities (automated patching automated DR automated cert renewal automated deployments etc) and eliminate the need for manual intervention.

  • Asses the quality of automation capabilities created by the wider community.

  • Assist with the migration from Geneos to Grafana.

  • Collaborate and consult with technical peers colleagues and senior managers to resolve stability and performance issues.


Required Qualifications:

  • Experience in Systems Engineering Technology Architecture or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education


Desired Qualifications:

  • Application support experience.

  • Change The Bank experience.

  • Strong Payments and Banking domain knowledge would be added advantage.

  • Expert in Unix/Windows operating system.

  • Expert in automation using any of scripting (shell/Perl/Python).

  • Expert in Ansible.

  • Strong knowledge of any of Relational database ( Oracle/My Sql) & SQL queries.

  • Expertise in ITIL processes (Change Incident and Problem Management) for Application Support.

  • Knowledge on any of monitoring tools like ITRS Geneos AppDynamics Splunk Grafana.

  • Knowledge of IBM MQ Series.

  • Experience in job scheduling tools like Autosys control M IBM Workload scheduler.

  • Demonstrated experience in remediating technical debt.

  • Effective interpersonal oral and written communication skills.

  • Able to influence various partners and Tech.

Posting End Date:

15 Oct 2025

*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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates including women persons with disabilities aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process visitDisability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.


Required Experience:

Director

About this role:Wells Fargo is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Automation SME to join our Observability and Automation Transformation team in this role you will be responsible for increasing stability improving resiliency reducing recover times and improving customer satisfaction via the...
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Key Skills

  • Continuous Integration
  • APIs
  • Jenkins
  • Junit
  • Distributed Control Systems
  • Testng
  • GAMP
  • Test Automation
  • CI/CD
  • Cucumber
  • Programmable Logic Controllers
  • Selenium

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