Software Engineering Manager

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release
• Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
• Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture
• Build engineering skills side-by-side in the codebase, conduct peer reviews to evaluate quality and solution alignment to technical direction, and guide design, as needed
• Interpret, develop, and ensure security, stability, and scalability within functions of technology with low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
• Collaborate and consult with the Product Managers/Product Owners to drive user satisfaction, influence technology requirements and priorities in the product roadmap, promote innovative and intelligent solutions, generate corporate value and articulate technical strategy while being a solid advocate of agile and DevOps practices
• Interact directly with third party vendors and technology service providers
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team
• Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 2+ years of Leadership experience

Desired Qualifications

• Enterprise application development and implementation experience across different tech stack
• management experience in technology including large/multiple application development & maintenance efforts within a small-to-medium size line of business
• Exposure to Banking domain is a must. Strong working experience in Lending/Mortgage and development of tools and applications for internal businesses will be preferred.
• Experience in managing engineering teams with strong technical experts and Solution engineers
• Expertise in CLOUD technologies including Azure, PCF, GCP, Docker and Kubernetes and experience in leading transformation projects
• Solid experience working with Java and related technologies
• Experience with Web and UI technologies like Angular , React, JQuery is a plus
• Experience with building and running micro services in a cloud environment
• Experience with and thorough understanding of event stream processing like Kafka is good to have
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization
• Ability to motivate staff to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment
• Ability to work with 3rd party service providers to deliver technology solutions that meet business needs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. This includes the demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of management via leading meetings and developing presentations.
• Must have good understanding of global trends and practices in Technology.
• Must be able to demonstrate true results in impacting business outcomes and must be an innovative leader.
• Must have created and presented business cases to management, involving both Strategic and Operational initiatives.
• Proven record in a successful global delivery environment, across multiple sites in closely working with various stakeholders.
• Proven capability to identify, recruit, develop and retain talent
• Ability to think logically; excellent problem solving, decision-making, and analytical skills
• Strategic thinker with strong implementation skills; highly organized and self-directed; takes initiative
• Experience in a Global in-house (GIC) center would be desirable.
• Strong knowledge/Expertise with dev ops culture, Automation and Engineering practices
• Demonstrated expertise in Project Management, Customer Engagement, People Leadership and Quality.
• Should have managed a medium sized team independently, looking after budgets, revenues, expenses, staffing, people development, etc.
• Experienced in process improvement and quality frameworks.
• A seasoned, relationship-driven executive who will have the style and sensitivity to work within a highly complex business environment. Multi-cultural sensitivity a must.