Wells Fargo
Specialty Software Engineering Senior Manager
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About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Specialty Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead software engineering teams supporting the Structured Products, Credit Trading, and Municipal Bond businesses. This leader will be responsible for driving the strategy, development, delivery, and operational stability of critical front-office trading platforms that enable risk management, P&L reporting, inventory management, electronic trading, regulatory compliance, and controls functions across Capital Markets. The role aligns with Wells Fargo's Technology Engineering leadership framework and requires strong stakeholder management, solution architecture, and software engineering leadership capabilities.
In this role, you will:
- Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of engineering managers and experienced engineers in specialized domain areas, 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 specialized domain experience and 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
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Required Qualifications:
- Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- Management or leadership experience
- Strong capital markets experience
- Experience in software engineering and design using Java/Springboot/C#/.NET in a microservice environment
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with AI code generation such as Claude Code, Cursor or Github Copilot
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in Structured Products, Credit and Muni trading (such as RMBS, ABS, CDS, Corp Bonds, Municipal bonds, IRS)
- Experience in trading systems and electronic trading
- Experience of Angular/React
Job Expectations:
- Experience supporting Fixed Income trading businesses including Credit, Structured Products, Municipals, Rates, or Securitized Products.
- Strong knowledge of electronic trading platforms, pre-trade and post-trade workflows, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience with modern engineering technologies including Java, microservices, cloud platforms, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and DevOps practices.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
- Demonstrated success leading transformational technology initiatives and large-scale engineering organizations
- Ability to work on-site at the posted location.
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
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Posting End Date:
2 Sep 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.
Employee Expectations
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 unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability 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:
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b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
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