Wells Fargo Engineering Transformation Lead- Flow Friction Lead 

United States, New Jersey 

887388031

About this role:

As a leader in our team, you will lead the friction-busting initiatives and drive engineering flow, own the backlog of daily improvement enablers, and apply modern engineering and SRE practices to unblock flow, improve engineering experience, and build a culture of sustainable, high-trust delivery. This role bridges engineering, risk, and platform strategy, turning compliance into an enabler and resilience into a design principle

In this role, you will:

• Own and prioritize the backlog of transformation enablers and process improvements (e.g., SDLC friction, Jira hygiene, manual controls), making work visible and valuable
• Drive systems-level change across delivery and compliance bottlenecks
• Partner with Capability Pods and Engineering Enablers to diagnose system-level constraints and co-lead change experiments to improve delivery flow, clarity, and adoption of governance
• Apply Lean, Agile, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to reduce friction and operational burden:
  • Eliminate “toil” through automation and paved road adoption
  • Introduce SLO-style metrics for governance health, blocker removal, and improvement impact
  • Facilitate blameless retros and reliability reviews for failed changes or control misses
• Co-create playbooks,
• Champion observability by creating dashboards and feedback loops on friction, flow efficiency, and compliance burden
• Drive a cultural shift from reactive “hero” delivery to proactive, reliable system design and psychological safety
• Serve as a translator and change agent across engineering, governance, and business leadership to align priorities with delivery reality

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years in engineering, platform support, DevOps, or SRE experience
• 5 years of risk or controls leadership roles in large-scale or regulated environments

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team transformations that reduce delivery friction, improve compliance, and restore trust
• Strong background in Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery environments
• Experience driving automation, service reliability, and system design thinking across functions
• Proven success influencing cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders with data, empathy, and clarity
• Familiarity with SRE practices (SLOs, toil elimination, incident reviews) applied beyond operations
• Experience designing metrics and OKRs for risk reduction, process reliability, and flow improvement
• Working knowledge of SDLC, change governance, control design, and regulatory reporting
• Experience coaching teams and facilitating retros, design sprints, or continuous improvement rituals.

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Pay Range

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

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