Software Engineering Manager - .NET / AI

Software Engineering Manager

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team, a critical platform supporting scalable, reliable, and modern application capabilities. This role requires a strong mix of people leadership, technical judgment, delivery accountability, and modernization mindset. The Engineering Manager will be accountable for execution excellence, engineering standards, and team capability growth while driving modernization, GenAI adoption, and production stability outcomes across the portfolio.

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:

• 10+ 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
• Backend:.NET /.NET Core (C#)
• Cloud: Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Azure Monitor)
• Databases: Microsoft SQL Server
• Architecture: Microservices-based systems
• Caching: Redis
• Messaging/Eventing: Kafka

Job Expectations:

• Will be required to work in the office as per organizations In Office Adherence / Return To Office (RTO)
• Strong understanding of microservices design, API-first development, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategies
• Experience ensuring non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security, scalability)
• Proven experience managing production systems and participating in incident response
• Demonstrated understanding of capital markets concepts including derivatives, risk management, and hedging strategies.
• Experienced in building or supporting systems that enable hedge designation, hedge effectiveness testing (prospective and retrospective), and accurate risk and P&L attribution across trading and treasury portfolios
• Strong people manager with experience leading multi-skill engineering teams
• Ability to balance delivery pressure with engineering quality
• Comfortable making trade-offs and decisions in ambiguous situations
• Clear communicator who partners effectively with Product, Architecture, QA, and Operations
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with a bias toward action