Lead FIX Engineer

About the vision:

This is an exciting time to be in Wealth Management Technology. AI is transforming every aspect of our business. Markets are moving to tokenized on-chain and 24x7. Our customers are expecting seamless and compelling end-to-end digital wealth solutions. The Digital & Trading Technology team is at the center of enabling this; join us in shaping the future of wealth. This role is specifically aligned to engineers supporting trading connectivity and FIXbased execution platforms within Wealth Management Technology.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with deep FIX protocol experience to support and evolve our trading and market connectivity platforms. This role combines handson engineering with technical leadership serving as a FIX subject matter expert while helping drive broader standards resiliency and modernization across trading systems.

Our team includes 300 engineers across the US and India with primary hubs in New York/New Jersey Charlotte (NC) and St. Louis (MO). This industry award winning team has a strong track record of delivering business value through innovative cutting-edge solutions. Our engineers are passionate about AI and use AIdriven development tools as part of a modern fullstack engineering culture. We leverage both Kubernetes based on-prem cloud and public cloud infrastructure to deploy our solutions. Our full stack engineers have the flexibility to collaborate with peers in the office three days a week and stay focused on delivery through partnership with a dedicated firstline support organization. Our Agile product model promotes close collaboration and shared ownership with the business offering meaningful opportunities to deepen business expertise while delivering highly impactful solutions.

Winner of Best Use of Tech in Private Banking/Wealth Management Winner of Gold Stevie Award for Technology Excellence New Product of the Year Winner of Best Mobile Strategy Initiative for the American Financial Technology Awards.

In this role you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

• Design code test debug and document for projects and programs

• Review and analyze complex large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives enterprise technological environment and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts senior technology team and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

• Lead projects teams or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education

• 5 years of handson backend software development experience using Java or C#

• 3 years of handson experience working with the FIX protocol (FIX 4.x or FIX 5.0) including session and application layers
• 3 years of experience onboarding certifying and supporting FIX connections with external counterparties (e.g. brokerdealers exchanges ECNs or vendors)
• 3 years of experience monitoring and troubleshooting FIX session issues including sequence gaps disconnects heartbeat failures and message rejections
• 3 years of experience designing and building integration services or APIs in trading or realtime systems
• 2 years of handson experience supporting electronic trading systems including order routing execution processing and related FIX message flows

Desired Qualifications

• Experience coordinating FIX certification UAT and golive activities with external brokerdealers exchanges ECNs or vendors
• Experience working directly with counterparty technical teams to resolve connectivity session stability and messagemapping issues
• Experience analyzing FIX logs and message flows to diagnose applicationlevel and sessionlevel issues
• Familiarity with FIX connectivity infrastructure including TCP/TLS networking firewall rules and extranet or vendormanaged connectivity providers
• Experience building or contributing to monitoring and alerting for FIX session health message throughput and latency
• Experience with cloudnative architectures and container platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines source control and automated testing in regulated or highly available environments
• Familiarity with market data or trading platforms supporting realtime or near realtime processing
• Experience conducting code reviews supporting release readiness and enforcing engineering best practices
• Experience using tools and practices related to application security and vulnerability management

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work in the office at one of the posted locations
• Willingness to participate in rotational oncall or offhours support
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance skills experience or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

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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