Wells Fargo Lead System Architect 

United States, Texas 

63615170

Wells Fargo is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Systems Architect to support the strategy, design, and implementation of our critical middleware and File transfer technology platforms. In this role, you will be a key leader in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core messaging and file transfer infrastructure, enabling seamless data flow across the enterprise and vendor solutions. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in file transfer, middleware technologies, and leading large-scale data exchange initiatives. You will be responsible for shaping the future of our middleware landscape, ensuring it aligns with our business objectives and adheres to industry best practices. This role requires close collaboration with engineering teams, product owners, and stakeholders across the organization

In this role, you will:

Lead the architecture and design of file transfer solutions, ensuring they meet business needs, security requirements, and compliance standards. This includes defining the technical direction, selecting appropriate technologies, and overseeing implementation.

Develop and maintain comprehensive architecture specifications for middleware and File Transfer technologies. Socialize the specification with stakeholders to get their buy-in and approval from Architecture Review Board.

Required Qualifications:

-5+ years of Systems Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

-3+ years of experience with File Transfer Technologies

-5 + years of experience with event/message driven architecture using the various middleware technologies in private and public cloud.

-3+ experience with implementing and enforcing governance framework for middleware technologies including the use of tools and techniques for schema management, data lineage.

Desired Qualifications:

-5+ years of middleware platform architecture to support technologies including Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace and middleware services on Azure and GCP.

-Understanding of network topologies, middleware protocols, and security measures, including VPNs and DMZs.

-Certification in Kafka, IBM MQ or Solace

-Experience working on Kafka Streams, Kafka connect, Apache Flink, MQ Clustering, Topic Hierarchies, Guaranteed messaging and replay capabilities.

-Familiar with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Packer for infrastructure automation.

-Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to interact with all levels in the organization.

Job Expectations:

This position is not available for Visa sponsorship

This position requires working from one of the posted locations in a hybrid environment

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

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