Software Engineering Manager AI Automation
Iselin, NJ - USA
Job Summary
Imagine stepping into a role where your leadership shapes the future of Risk technology at one of the worlds largest financial institutions. At Wells Fargo were searching for a Software Engineering Manager to help reimagine and modernize the technology powering our Risk ecosystema critical function that influences decisions at the highest levels of the company.
In this role youll guide a global engineering organization through a transformation that blends cloud-native design modern engineering practices and emerging GenAI capabilities. Youll have the platform to architect whats next while keeping teams aligned on delivering meaningful outcomes today. With newly established teams across the U.S. and India youll build mentor and elevate a worldclass engineering culture from the ground up.
Your impact will span strategic planning technical execution and organizational leadershipowning everything from product delivery performance to workforce strategy and partner engagement. Youll also serve as a trusted voice to executives and business leaders helping translate technical vision into tangible enterprise-wide results.
If you thrive at the intersection of engineering excellence business strategy and people leadershipand you want a role where you can truly steer the direction of a major modernization journeythis is the kind of challenge that doesnt come around often.
What you will own:
Enterprise Risk Technology platforms including AIenabled testing controls and monitoring.
Engineering strategy for GenAI agentic systems and automation frameworks.
Modernization of legacy risk systems into scalable APIfirst AIintegrated platforms.
Execution across globally distributed engineering teams
Technical roadmaps aligned to risk outcomes regulatory expectations and AI governance.
Executive engagement as a technology thought partner to Risk leadership.
Agentic risk workflows that orchestrate controls testing and monitoring.
AIassisted and AIdriven risk execution (LLMs rules engines decision logic).
Modern control and testing platforms built on eventdriven architectures.
In this role you will:
Manage coach and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness application modernization and data strategy
Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments obstacles and friction while encouraging constant learning experimentation and continual improvement culture
Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction and guide design as needed
Interpret develop and ensure security stability and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity as well as identify manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
Collaborate and consult with the Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap promote innovative and intelligent solutions generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
Manage allocation of people and financial resources for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
Hire mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products
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
2 years of Leadership experience
Desired Qualifications:
Strong agile project leadership: run tight sprints adjust scope rapidly and ensure delivery of a viable product incrementally to maintain delivery target.
Strong technical oversight: Steer architectural decisions; enforce coding standards security and scalability practices to guarantees that fast-built solutions are reliable compliant and integrate well with existing systems.
Cross-Functional Coordination: Communicate continuously with stakeholders (product owners user reps) and other team leads to keep team aligned with business needs.
Result-Oriented Management: Set clear success metrics and track progress toward them to ensure delivering measurable business impacts.
Expert in full-stack coding and tools in multiple languages (Python Java JS/React)
Strong AI and data proficiency including experienced with AI/ML frameworks (e.g. LangChain) and model integration. Adept at data pipelines APIs and knowledge graphs for intelligent features
Strong communication and empathy skills able to communicate across stakeholder organizational levels.
Ability to problem-solve understand the business needs and deliver a business-valued solution.
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
Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening
This position currently offers a hybrid work schedule
This position is 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.
$119000.00 - $224000.00Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits many of which are listed below. VisitBenefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance critical illness insurance and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:
15 Jun 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.
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.
#DNP-INDRequired Experience:
Manager
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