Senior Software Engineer Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations Technology
Charlotte, VT - USA
Job Summary
What if your next move didnt feel like a job searchbut a step toward building something that truly matters
At Wells Fargo a small but highly influential technology group is quietly reshaping how one of the worlds largest financial institutions combats financial crime and meets regulatory demands at scale. The Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations Technology Team is looking for a Lead Specialty Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of modern engineering and meaningful enterprise impact.
In this role youll be a hands-on technical lead driving the modernization of missioncritical platforms using OpenShift and Kubernetes helping advance a cloudnative containerfirst ecosystem that powers regulatory and financial crime operations across the enterprise. This work goes far beyond keeping the lights onits about designing secure resilient scalable systems that operate at massive scale and make a tangible difference.
Youll join a team committed to engineering excellence where innovation is thoughtful stability is nonnegotiable and your expertise directly influences how platforms are built evolved and delivered.
If you enjoy solving complex problems modernizing legacy environments and mentoring others while shaping the future of enterprise container platforms this is an opportunity worth exploringeven if you werent planning a move.
Sometimes the most impactful roles are the ones you werent actively looking for.
In this role you will:
Provide technical knowledge around microservice and container-based solutions while leveraging domain driven design principles and development driven testing.
Lead and drive others across the team to effectively deliver and transform the way solutions are delivered across the enterprise. The team effectively partners with business stakeholders and drives the requirements gathering strategy roadmap and prioritization of work to deliver next generation solutions to our business partners.
Aggressive modernization milestones and deliverables tied to the hosting strategy cloud strategy and modernization roadmap are tied to delivery.
The Lead Specialty Software Engineer must adopt and support a culture of diversity intellectual curiosity problem solving and openness.
Support complex engineering initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.
Resolve coding testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
Ensure solutions are engineered to increase resiliency operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.
Enforce the adoption and implementation of modern design principles standards and companywide best practices for engineering and implementing large-scale technology solutions.
Leverage your understanding of industry best practices and new technologies to influence and lead technology teams to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
Collaborate and consult with key technical experts senior technology team and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust Cloud centric solutions.
Required Qualifications:
5 years of Specialty Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education.
5 years experience working withOpenShift and Kubernetes or equivalent hands-on enterprise experience with service-oriented design development and implementation.
5 years of experience in building deploying and implementing new solutions at scale using modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React Java Spring Boot Kafka VertX Reactive programmingor equivalent.
3 years of experience with modern Cloud Platforms & DevOps including including AWS Azure GCP and tools such as Jenkins GitLab or Tekton.
Desired Qualifications:
Proven track record of building and deploying cloud-native services using Operator SDK and Helm charts ConfigMaps Secrets etc. and Service Mesh. Working knowledge of CloudFoundry and experience migrating apps from CloudFoundry to OpenShift/Kubernetes.
5 years of experience in building deploying and implementing new solutions at scale using modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React or equivalent cloud-centric coding practices.
3 years of experience with Agile CI/CD DevOps concepts including tools such as Jenkins GitLab or Tekton.
3 years of experience with monitoring logging observability tools (Splunk Grafana AppD New Relic Elastic Open Telemetry).
3 years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and hybrid infrastructure setups.
This role is expected to be an engineer with experience using OpenShift / Kubernetes Container Platforms.
The candidate should have experience in designing building and delivering cloud-native micro-services-oriented solutions at an enterprise scale for large financial services or other large regulated sectors.
Experience with Financial Crimes Operations such as AML Fraud and KYC.
Cloud certified engineer.
Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
Ability to deliver & engage with partners effectively in a multi-cultural environment by demonstrating co-ownership & accountability in a matrix structure.
Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
Experienced in implementing risk and control requirements for cloud-native solutions.
Job Expectations and Core Values:
Be Humble:Youre smart yet always interested in learning from others.
Work Transparently:You always deal in an honest direct and transparent way.
Take Ownership:You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
Learn More:You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
Show Gratitude:You show appreciation and respect to those you work with.
No Visa Sponsorship available currently for this role.
Posting End Date:
14 Apr 2026*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.
Applicants with Disabilities
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:
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