Lead Systems Architect – Portfolio & Capability Optimization

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Systems Architect (Portfolio & Capability Optimization) to join the Technology Chief Operating Office (TCOO) Central Architecture teama strategic enterprise-facing group responsible for shaping and advancing technology strategy across the COO organization.

The Central Architecture team serves as a unifying force bringing a centralized crossdomain perspective to technology decisionmaking. By establishing strong architectural alignment and portfolio discipline the team ensures that technology investments are intentional scalable and aligned with enterprise standards.

In this role you will lead efforts to optimize technology portfolios and capabilities drive application rationalization and enable reusable AI and GenAI patterns that accelerate value across the organization. You will play a critical role in evaluating and shaping COO Technology investmentsensuring they are defensible strategically aligned and positioned to deliver longterm impact.

If you are passionate about enterprise architecture technology optimization and influencing strategy at scale this role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of COO Technology.

In this role you will:

Portfolio & Capability Optimization

• Act as the central portfolio and capability optimization architect for COO Technology providing crossdomain architectural insight and decision support.
• Lead application portfolio assessment rationalization and lifecycle optimization identifying opportunities to reduce redundancy technical debt and cost.
• Assess and guide technology investment alignment including buildversusbuy decisions and portfolio tradeoffs to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture standards and COO strategy.
• Define and track architecture health risk and portfolio performance metrics to enable datadriven decisionmaking and executive transparency.

AI / GenAI Enablement & Reuse

• Define and maintain a reusable capability view for AIenabled services guiding reuse versus bespoke build decisions across COO portfolios.
• Establish and socialize reference architectures and patterns for AIenabled solutions such as knowledgeassisted workflows and agentic patterns.
• Partner with Cyber Model Risk and platform teams to ensure AI capabilities adopt enterprise guardrails including data protection resiliency and policyaligned controls.
• Align domain roadmaps to enterprise AI platforms and shared services that enable governed experimentation reuse and standardized delivery.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of Architecture experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
• 5 years leading medium to largescale architecture or portfolio optimization programs
• 3 years of experience working with enterprisescale application portfolios including assessment rationalization modernization or migration initiatives
• 1 years of experience integrating AIenabled capabilities into enterprise portfolios in a governed scalable manner

Desired Qualifications

• Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills including engagement with senior technology leadership
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles portfolio governance and modernization strategies
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and drive alignment in complex federated environments
• Experience with architecture modeling and portfolio tools (e.g. Bizzdesign ArchiMate ServiceNow or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to assess platform health risk and readiness through structured portfolio evaluations
• Experience integrating emerging technologies including AIenabled capabilities into enterprise portfolios in a governed scalable manner
• Experience shaping AI/GenAI reference architectures and reusable patterns in regulated enterprise environments
• Familiarity with AI safety and control concepts and how to embed them into architecture standards
• Ability to translate AI risk and control requirements into actionable architecture artifacts consumable by delivery and governance teams

Job Expectations

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time

Job Posting Locations:

300 S Brevard St. CHARLOTTE North Carolina 28202

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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