Lead Software Engineer Job Description Summary

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Job Description About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking Lead Software Engineer:

Experienced in Java Full Stack Development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Automation, Monitoring & Observability

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs

• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

• Software Development: Java, Python, SQL, bash or combination of other object oriented and scripting language(s)

• Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Amelia

• Java Full Stack – JavaScript, Angular/React JS, Spring Boot, NodeJS, XML, HTML

• Database: Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, Basic Data Modeling, PL/SQL

• OS and Platform: Azure, SQLMI, GCP, PCF, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Linux, Windows

• CI/CD: EPL/EPLX, Harness, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Sonar Qube, Checkmarks, Blackduck, Service Now AVR, Artifactory

• Observability and AIOPS: Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Kibana, App Dynamics, Splunk

• Track record of creating innovative and complex automation solutions, a combination of tooling and code.

• AI/ML, GenAI: Tachyon, NotebookLM, Microsoft co-pilot, GitHub co-pilot, LLM Models.

• Experience in Data Modeling and Data Integration Patterns

• Experience with logging, monitoring, and event detection on cloud or distributed platforms.

• Experience with one or more Technology Platforms (Cloud, o/s, etc.): Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Azure, GCP, Linux, Windows

Job Expectations:

• Introducing enterprise capabilities, tools, and innovation improving availability in a multi-cloud ecosystem by evolving observability, monitoring, logging, CI/CD integration, continuous testing (performance, smoke, regression, functional, chaos) introduce continuous improvement, standardization/automation, capabilities to conduct destructive and resiliency testing.

• Evolve AIOPS, Chat Ops, No Ops introducing self-healing and autonomic capabilities solving complex operational and systemic issues with precision including building and training models, automating cognitive processes, leveraging Robotic Process Automation, Unified Communication, and AI/ML to improve availability of products we provide to customers.

• Automate key SRE metrics and IT Service Operations processes including customer impact, % availability of critical business flows, SLO/SLI adherence, error budget, automated incident process for IT Service Operations through data integrating with unified communications, alerting/notification systems, and evolving Chat Ops to reduce time to recovery.

Posting End Date:

14 Apr 2026

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