Lead Data Engineer

About this role:

Within COO Technology Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to help shape and scale our cloudnative data this role you will focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and frameworks leading the design build and operation of reusable data capabilities that power analytics and AI at enterprise scale. The ideal candidate is passionate about standardized frameworks selfservice data platforms and governancebydesign enabling secure reliable and compliant data solutions across Google Cloud services.

The COO Technology group powers the firms most critical operations by modernizing and optimizing enterprise technology platforms that enable resiliency regulatory excellence data services customer experience and strategic execution across the Chief Operating Office.

In this role you will:

• Design and implement scalable secure data platforms on Google Cloud using managed services (BigQuery Dataflow Dataproc Pub/Sub Cloud Storage Composer).)
• Build reusable frameworks and tooling (ingestion transformation quality orchestration) that can be adopted by multiple product and domain teams.
• Enable selfservice data consumption and governance by standardizing patterns templates and platform capabilities rather than oneoff pipelines.
• Design logical and physical data platform architectures leveraging BigQuery Dataflow/Apache Beam Dataproc/Spark Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage.
• Define and implement standardized ingestion transformation and serving patterns (batch and streaming) as reusable blueprints.
• Optimize cost performance and reliability of GCP data workloads (partitioning clustering storage classes autoscaling strategies).
• Build opinionated data ingestion frameworks (e.g. configdriven pipelines connectors schema handling error handling) on top of Dataflow Dataproc or Composer.
• Develop shared transformation libraries in Python/SQL/Beam (e.g. common SCD patterns data quality checks masking/tokenization routines).
• Provide orchestration capabilities via Cloud Composer or Cloud Workflows with reusable DAGs/templates and CI/CD integration.
• Implement robust data modeling (dimensional data vault or canonical models) and semantic layers in BigQuery and related tools.
• Enforce data quality lineage and observability using standardized metrics validation rules and monitoring dashboards.
• Apply security and governance controls: IAM VPCSC CMEK row/columnlevel security and policydriven access patterns
• Partner with domain data engineers analytics and ML teams to onboard use cases onto platform services and frameworks
• Document patterns runbooks and best practices and provide enablement through workshops and code examples.
• Contribute to platform roadmap tool selection and evaluation of new GCP services and opensource components

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of Database Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
• 5 years of data management experience within Public Cloud (GCP AWS Azure)
• 5 years of hands on experience of Python or Java plus Spark SQL for building data pipelines libraries and automation tooling.
• 5 years with orchestration tools (Cloud Composer/Airflow) and CI/CD (Cloud Build Gitbased workflows) for data workloads

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with logging/monitoring stacks (Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring error reporting metrics dashboards
• Experience with automated testing data quality checks and monitoring for pipelines and platform services.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture principles (networking security IAM reliability cost management).
• Experience with core GCP data services: BigQuery Dataflow/Apache Beam Dataproc Pub/Sub.

• Experience with Agile transformations and technology roadmaps.
• Experience working with onshore and offshore teams.

Job Expectations:

• Flexible to provide both application development and production support during off-hours
• This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship
• Hybrid schedule (3 days in office 2 days remote)
• 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

Job Posting Locations:

194 S Wood Ave Iselin New Jersey 08830

300 S Brevard St. CHARLOTTE North Carolina 28202

401 Las Colinas Blvd W Bldg A Irving Texas 75039

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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