Overview
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Cybersecurity organization. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle for cloud-native Identity and Access Management (IAM) applications, driving engineering excellence, DevSecOps practices, and AI-enabled innovation.
Technical Leadership
- •Provide technical leadership for the design, development, deployment, and support of cloud-native IAM applications.
- •Lead architecture and design decisions across frontend, backend, API, event-driven, and data platforms.
- •Establish technical standards, coding practices, design patterns, and engineering guardrails.
- •Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers to drive engineering excellence and technical growth.
- •Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership and stakeholders on technology strategy and modernization initiatives.
Full-Stack Application Development
- •Design and develop responsive web applications using React and modern JavaScript frameworks.
- •Develop scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs, and microservice architectures.
- •Design and implement event-driven integrations using Kafka and enterprise messaging patterns.
- •Build and optimize MongoDB data models, queries, and application persistence layers.
- •Integrate with enterprise IAM platforms, identity providers, and security services.
Agile Delivery and DevSecOps
- •Lead Agile teams through sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, release planning, and production deployments.
- •Drive CI/CD automation and DevSecOps practices utilizing GitHub, Jenkins, OpenShift, SonarQube, Fortify, and Black Duck.
- •Ensure adherence to SDLC, change management, security, resiliency, audit, and compliance requirements.
- •Partner with product and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Operational Excellence
- •Drive application reliability, observability, monitoring, and production support readiness.
- •Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues.
- •Implement performance optimization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and scalability improvements.
- •Champion automation across testing, deployment, operational support, and engineering workflows.
AI and Innovation
- •Drive adoption of AI-assisted software development practices.
- •Design and develop AI-enabled user experiences and intelligent workflows.
- •Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovations that improve customer experience, productivity, and engineering efficiency.
- •Support implementation of MCP-based integrations, intelligent agents, and AI-powered automation capabilities where appropriate.
- •Demonstrate proficiency in using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
- •Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AI-assisted outputs into solutions.
- •Ensure AI usage aligns with security, compliance, privacy, and ethical standards.
Required Qualifications
- •5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
- •5+ years leading complex software engineering initiatives or Agile teams.
- •5+ years of Java and Spring Boot development experience.
- •5+ years building RESTful APIs and microservices.
- •3+ years of React development experience.
- •3+ years of MongoDB or equivalent NoSQL database experience.
- •Experience implementing event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
- •Experience deploying applications to OpenShift, Kubernetes, or cloud-native platforms.
- •Experience with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, and automated testing frameworks.
- •Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, and IAM concepts.
- •Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
Desired Qualifications
- •Experience building IAM, IGA, access management, certification, entitlement, or compliance solutions.
- •Experience with AI-enabled applications, generative AI platforms, MCP architectures, and intelligent automation.
- •Experience with API gateways such as Apigee.
- •Experience operating applications within highly regulated financial services environments.
- •Experience leading engineering transformation initiatives and developing T-shaped engineering teams.
Job Expectations
- •Hybrid work schedule.
- •Not eligible for Visa sponsorship.