Lead Specialty Software Engineer

About this role:
Wells Fargo's Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations Technology Team is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer with experience using
OpenShift and Kubernetes Container technologies. The Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations Technology Team is responsible for delivering best-in-class platforms, services, and solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiencies for Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations throughout the enterprise.
Our mission is to deliver stable, secure, scalable, container-based technologies and innovative services at speeds that delight and satisfy our customers and unleash the skills potential of our customers.
This role will drive modernization and innovation with a deliberate focus on enabling and delivering a cloud-native solutions.
In this role, you will:

• Provide technical knowledge around microservice and container-based solutions while leveraging domain driven design principles and development driven testing.
• Lead and drive others across the team to effectively deliver and transform the way solutions are delivered across the enterprise. The team effectively partners with business stakeholders and drives the requirements gathering, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization of work to deliver next generation solutions to our business partners.
• Aggressive modernization milestones and deliverables tied to the hosting strategy, cloud strategy, and modernization roadmap are tied to delivery.
• The Lead Specialty Software Engineer must adopt and support a culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness.
• Support complex engineering initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.
• Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
• Ensure solutions are engineered to increase resiliency, operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
• Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.
• Enforce the adoption and implementation of modern design principles, standards and companywide best practices for engineering and implementing large-scale technology solutions.
• Leverage your understanding of industry best practices and new technologies to influence and lead technology teams to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
• Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust Cloud centric solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 5+ years' experience working with OpenShift and Kubernetes or equivalent hands-on enterprise experience with service-oriented design, development and implementation.
• 5+ years of experience in building, deploying, and implementing new solutions at scale using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, VertX, Reactive programming or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience with modern Cloud Platforms & DevOps including, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Tekton
• Understanding of GenAI and Agentic AI landscape, agent development and agent deployment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven track record of building and deploying cloud-native services, using Operator SDK and Helm charts, ConfigMaps, Secrets etc. and Service Mesh. Working knowledge of CloudFoundry and experience migrating apps from CloudFoundry to OpenShift/Kubernetes
• 5+ years of experience in building, deploying, and implementing new solutions at scale using Java, .net or equivalent cloud-centric coding practices
• 3+ years of experience with Agile, CI/CD, DevOps concepts, including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Tekton
• 3+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, AppD, New Relic, Elastic, Open Telemetry)
• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid infrastructure setups
• This role is expected to be an engineer with experience using OpenShift / Kubernetes Container Platforms.
• The candidate should have experience in designing, building, and delivering cloud-native, micro-services-oriented solutions at an enterprise scale for large financial services or other large, regulated sectors.
• Experience with Financial Crimes Operations such as AML, Fraud, and KYC.
• Cloud certified engineer.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
• Ability to deliver & engage with partners effectively in a multi-cultural environment by demonstrating co-ownership & accountability in a matrix structure.
• Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.
• Experienced in implementing risk and control requirements for cloud-native solutions.

Job Expectations and Core Values:

• Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others.
• Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.
• Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
• Learn More: You regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
• Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and respect to those you work with.

Posting End Date:
13 Mar 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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