Wells Fargo Enterprise-Level Architect 

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 

509167044

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an enterprise architect to shape the digital strategy and target technology ecosystem. In this role, the enterprise architect will drive the creation of the target architecture towards business capabilities that are modular, composable cloud-native services on modernized infrastructure. The enterprise architect will partner with domain architects to design target banking platforms capable of leveraging GenAI to produce efficient and rationalized ecosystems lending to reuse, resiliency, agility, and customer centricity. A few of the key responsibilities of this position will be:

• Lead the development of strategy for capabilities across the bank and help influence target state architectures
• Influence specific target state architectures and credibly challenge line of business / domain architecture on alignment to enterprise goals
• Contribute to forward-looking policies, patterns, standards, non-functional requirements, methodologies and industry best practices and work with domain architects to promote adherence
• Provide leadership and guidance at architecture councils, review boards and internal and external architecture forums
• Reimagine the way Wells Fargo delivers banking capabilities to customers, employees, and other stakeholders and develop enterprise architecture strategy that enacts major business objectives
• Provide strategic thought leadership on Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, agents, microservices and other advanced techniques to drive better services, faster and more efficiently
• Assist in the development of proof-of-concept efforts (e.g., GenAI prototypes) to evaluate evolving frameworks, products, and technologies
• Perform enterprise and portfolio-level analysis to drive investment analysis, rationalization, and convergence strategies
• Perform in-depth consultation to senior management on strategic issues and opportunities
• Support data center migration efforts and understand full stack architecture to migrate dependencies accordingly
• Produce enterprise architecture specifications and documents using industry standard modeling languages and tools
• Provide thought leadership to digitize the enterprise architecture practice towards architecture-as-code model with controls/governance embedded into the framework

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 across multiple groups
• 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
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of architecture in one or a combination of the following areas: enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, infrastructure or security, or security architecture
• 7+ years of software development experience
• 7+ years of experience leading medium and large-scale architecture change
• 3+ years of experience as an enterprise architect
• Adept at strategic and abstract thinking and can make trade-offs based on required architecture qualities

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to influence across all organizational levels, particularly senior management
• Ability to negotiate/challenge, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
• 3+ years of experience using industry standards such as BAG, BIAN, TOGAF and architecture modeling languages such as ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, etc. leveraging BizzDesign Horizzon
• 5+ years of experience in financial services and banking domain
• Bachelor’s and/or master’s in computer science or information systems
• Prior related experience leading and/or managing architecture strategies with architecture roadmap that aligns with business strategy and objectives
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies (GCP, Azure) and familiarity with data center exit strategies
• Good analytical skills to set data driven insights with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Lead application consolidation and rationalization efforts and the related emerging technology assessments

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship

Pay Range

$144,400.00 - $300,000.00

16 Mar 2025

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.