HR Data Tech Director Technology Executive

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Executive for HR Data Engineering Analytics and Reporting Services. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the next evolution of HR data platforms and services within a large complex enterprise environment. The Technology Executive will build upon an established foundation while driving modernization innovation and alignment with enterprise data and technology strategies.

This leader will play a key role in advancing cloud adoption strengthening data governance and analytics capabilities and positioning HR data as a strategic asset across the organization. Additionally this role will drive the adoption of artificial intelligence and generative AI capabilities to accelerate delivery enhance data-driven insights and unlock new business value while ensuring responsible use aligned with enterprise governance risk and regulatory requirements.

In this role you will:

• Provide vision and set direction for all of technology development and infrastructure or service component for a defined business unit
• Manage and allocate appropriate people and financial resources to ensure that projects are completed within committed time and budget and align with strategic objectives
• Develop and monitor long range information technology plans and policies consistent with the strategic objectives and plans of the business unit
• Identify capacity planning efficiency availability business enablement and time to market
• Provide comprehensive consultation to more experienced management regarding business requirements
• Recommend innovations which anticipate the future directions of both business and information technology
• Provide technology solutions for the large business unit including application portfolio standardization and rationalization
• 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:

• 10 years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
• 6 years of management or leadership experience
• 5 years of enterprise data warehousing including batch/streaming processing workload management scalable storage and standardized access (SQL/APIs).
• 5 years Hands-on leadership of data quality metadata and governance-aligned delivery in partnership with risk/compliance.
• 5 years of experience operating data platforms in cloud/hybrid environments aligned to enterprise controls and shared responsibility models.
• Experience partnering with business and technology leaders; clearly communicate priorities risks and tradeoffs.
• Experience using automation and GenAI to improve delivery and productivity while operating within governance guardrails (validation monitoring lifecycle management).

Desired Qualifications:

• Cloud modernization: Experience evolving legacy DW/ETL toward scalable cloud-based architectures.
• Modern platform patterns: Familiarity with lakehouse/unified analytics platforms and consolidation strategies.
• Data product mindset: Defines data products with clear ownership SLAs and governed self-service access.
• GenAI for engineering: Uses GenAI to accelerate development (code testing documentation) with strong safety and review practices.
• Metadata & lineage: Improves discoverability and trust through modern metadata and lineage practices.
• Platform evolution: Experience with elastic multi-tenant data platforms optimized for cost and performance.
• Vendor & risk management: Manages third-party/platform risk in regulated environments (resiliency controls compliance).

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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