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
Desired Qualifications:
- 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
- 3+ years of experience as an enterprise architect
- 7+ years of experience leading medium and large-scale architecture change
- Adept at strategic and abstract thinking and can make trade-offs based on required architecture qualities
- 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:
- 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
9 Jul 2025
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.