Job Summary

Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

- 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 team-oriented 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
- 5+ 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
- Lead and mentor 1525 software engineers across two Agile teams.
- Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Drive hiring, onboarding, career development, and performance management of team members.
- Foster collaboration across Product, Architecture, Security, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
- Act as the technical leader for Java-based distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Review and approve application architecture, design patterns, and implementation approaches.
- Drive modernization of legacy platforms into cloud-ready microservices solutions.
- Establish engineering standards, coding practices, and design governance.
- Design scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available systems.
- Lead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and proof-of-concepts.
- Promote API-first design and event-driven architecture patterns.
- Identify opportunities for automation, platform simplification,



and operational efficiency.
- Ensure production stability, performance, availability, and observability.
- Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and remediation activities.
- Drive DevSecOps adoption, CI/CD maturity, and engineering productivity improvements.
- Own end-to-end delivery of features and programs from concept through production deployment.
- Partner with Product Managers and Architects to define roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Ensure predictable execution, risk management, and delivery quality.
- Drive Agile best practices including sprint planning, backlog management, and release planning.

Job Expectations
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years managing engineering teams.
- Deep expertise in:
- Java 17/21
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms

- Strong experience with:

- SQL and NoSQL databases
- Distributed systems design
- Application security and authentication patterns
- Performance tuning and scalability engineering
- Experience building cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or GCP.

- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Leadership Skills
- Experience managing multiple Agile teams.
- Strong stakeholder and executive communication skills.
- Ability to influence architecture and technology decisions across organizations.
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale enterprise applications.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading modernization from monolithic applications to microservices.
- Knowledge of Identity & Access Management (IAM), Security, or Banking platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, or Azure Kubernetes Services.
- Exposure to Domain-Driven Design (DDD), SRE, and DevSecOps practices.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

📌 Software Engineering Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Wells Fargo
📍 Hyderabad