Software Engineering Sr Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Senior Manager as part of Identity Access Management Engineering. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management focusing on building secure scalable identity governance solutions and advancing cloud-first architecture strategies. The leader will drive platform modernization improve development practices through AI-assisted tools and ensure alignment with enterprise security and compliance standards. Success in this role requires strong engineering judgment strategic thinking and the ability to lead through complex cross-functional initiatives.

In this role you will:

• Manage coach and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Partner with engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness application modernization data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high-risk deliverables and help remove impediments obstacles and friction while encouraging constant learning experimentation and continual improvement
• 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 moderate complexity as well as identify manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate with partner with and influence 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 to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering
• Hire build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers
• Demonstrate proficiency in using AIassisted development and analysis tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot and approved codecentric agents)
• Leverage AI to accelerate system design coding testing analysis and troubleshooting
• Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AIassisted outputs into solutions
• Understand and account for model limitations security risks and operational considerations
• Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments
• Ensure AI usage aligns with security compliance privacy and ethical standards

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
• 3 years of management or leadership experience
• 5 years of experience in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) across identity lifecycle (Joiner/Mover/Leaver) access request certification role & entitlement modeling and SoD controls

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading large-scale IGA consolidations/migrations from legacy platforms (e.g. OIM Tivoli SailPoint IIQ custom IGA) into modern cloud-based solutions like Saviynt EIC
• Strong integration and engineering background leveraging APIs SCIM/REST and connector frameworks to onboard enterprise applications (cloud on-prem and custom)
• Cloud-first IAM architecture and operations experience including SaaS delivery models scalability resiliency and secure DevSecOps practices
• Enterprise program leadership and stakeholder management skills to drive cross-functional alignment (engineering application teams risk/compliance audit) and execute firmwide transformation initiatives
• Exceptional leadership communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive organizational change
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security best practices
• Experience scaling engineering teams and managing cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to manage in a matrixed organization environment
• Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities

Locations:

• 194 S Wood Ave. - Iselin NJ

Posting Statements:

• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
• Required location(s) listed above. Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Salary range is determined by location of the job. May be considered for a discretionary bonus Restricted Share Rights or other long term incentive awards.
• 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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Drug and Alcohol Policy

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