Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Architect /Developer Principal Engineer to work within the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) Capital Markets, Fixed Income, spread technology division to lead a global team as part of the Spread Modernization initiatives. Spread encompasses Credit, Municipal, and Structured Products asset classes, and in addition, also supports the horizontal Post Trade processing feed across Capital Markets. This individual will lead and be part of the team that will embark on modernization of our core post Trade processing system as well as be a key contributor to expansion of our CORE Trading and Risk framework across various asset classes. This framework is responsible for real-time Position Management, Pricing, Risk and PNL for our Front Office traders, PNL Reconciliation for Middle Office, as well as EOD risk and analytics for Market Risk Officers. This is a hybrid role with the expectation of a minimum 3 days per week at our New York Office. Learn more about our career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.
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The ideal candidate will be expected to partner or consult with resources across the line of business, technology, control, and various enterprise risk functions. Candidates will collaborate closely with peers and senior leadership to optimize the current operating and business engagement model for this team. Candidates for this role will have strong project management and leadership experience, preferably in a matrixed environment, and will be expected to develop a diverse team of data management and business execution focused individuals.
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In this role, you will:
- Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs
- Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
- Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
- Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
- Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
- Strategic Vision & Application Roadmaps
- Translate the business vision and goals to target state application roadmaps with clear options for any tactical versus strategic trade-offs
- Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans
- Architecture Principles and Standards
- Develop technical standards, guidelines, and reference architectures based on industry trends and best practices including microservices and cloud deployments
- Documenting architectural standards, best practices, and mentoring application teams on developing highly distributed, resilient, and responsive applications
- Architecture Diagrams & Documentation
- Author and maintain application use case, sequence, system context, and topology diagrams
- Document integration patterns and options
- Document Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery capabilities for applications
- Solution Designs
- Assist development teams to produce cloud migration strategies in alignment with the overall strategy and priorities established by senior Architecture leadership
- Design solutions that are fit for purpose, scalable and evolvable
- Translates business requirements into well-architected recommendations supporting working foundational platform components thus ensuring functional and non-functional aspects are met
- Promote Loosely coupled, event-driven architectures working within an agile team
- Evaluating any project constraints and devising alternatives to reduce risks, whilst performing process re-engineering
- Conducting regular evaluations of the system architecture and collaborating with project management teams to improve the designs
- Performing continuous research on emerging technologies to stay updated with the best alternatives and to improve the existing architectures
- Work with engineers to Build, test, and present proofs of concept to demonstrate software architectures and patterns as well as help prove out the best options
- Define technology stacks that is appropriate to the project requirements and constraints
- Automation
- Ensure high-quality software delivery through effective automation strategies
- Develop and enhance the tools/techniques needed for a smooth business workflows
- Mentoring
- Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across all teams
- 7+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 7+ years' experience architecture and design skills
- 4+ years experience with Cloud technologies
- 7+ years Java Technologies
- 2+ years in Web Servers (like Apache Tomcat, IIS, nginx)
- 2+ years in distributed caches such as Redis & Ignite
- 2+ years in Databases, both SQL and NoSQL such as Oracle and Mongo
- 2+ years in Event driven Messaging Frameworks using Solace or Apache Kafka
- Strong communication skills, including ability to drive outcomes with business and tech partners
- Ability to lead - work with the business partners and the dev team to deliver the agreed outcomes
- Ability to look for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.
- Experience building supervisory controls tools
- 1+ years experience in post-trade processing
- 1+ years experience with workflows, rules engines, REST API
300 S Brevard Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
150 E 42nd St. New York, NY 10017
Metro Park, 194 Wood Avenue South, Iselin, New Jersey 08830
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
$144,400.00 - $300,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - 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
6 Apr 2025
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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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