About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director in Cybersecurity as part of Identity Access Management. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com

Are you ready to take the reins of a high-impact engineering role at the forefront of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)? We’re looking for a visionary leader to drive the transformation of our Access Administration engineering function, the largest and most critical component of our IAM portfolio, spanning 30+ products.

In this role, you’ll spearhead a strategic evolution: guiding the team from day-to-day operations toward a future-focused, innovation-driven model. You’ll shape the roadmap, elevate engineering practices, and ensure seamless support for existing systems while building the foundation for what’s next.

If you're passionate about leading world-class teams, driving large-scale transformation, and making a lasting impact, we want to hear from you!

In this role, you will:

• Manage a global team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third-party providers
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications, US:

• 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 6+ years of Identity Governance and Administration experience
• 4+ years of Management experience
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge and expertise with Identity Governance Toolsets such as IBM Tivoli, Saviynt, Oracle Identity Manager
• Direct experience in leading the implementation of one or more of the above tools is desired, and or experience in migrating from one to the other
• Deep IAM and IGA domain expertise and strong engineering background with a track record of leading all stages of software development, deployment, and production support
• 4+ years leading an access administration team providing strategy and technical expertise to both the team and the larger parent organization
• Excellent knowledge of access requests, approvals, provisioning, deprovisioning, and access certification
• Experience supporting cloud transformation and working with SaaS solutions, especially those involving Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Technical engineering leader comfortable with system design and demonstrable track record of building highly reliable, scalable, and performant systems for complex use cases
• Strong hands-on experience with IAM tools and solutions
• Experience with ETL tools and data transformation
• Excellent knowledge of databases both operational and data warehouse.
• Expert at designing clean data models and managing data for high performance and scalability
• Experience with IGA connectors, reconciliation and application onboarding
• Excellent technical leader that can build and grow world class engineering teams
• Experience with Privileged Access Management

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

Locations:

• 300 S Brevard St. - Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1525 W WT Harris Blvd. - Charlotte, North Carolina
• 2600 S Price Rd. - Chandler, Arizona
• 550 S 4th St. - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1301 Solana Blvd. - Westlake, Texas
• 800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy - West Des Moines, Iowa
• 194 S Wood Ave - Iselin, New Jersey

Posting Statements:

• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
• Required location(s) listed above. Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Salary range is determined by location of the job. May be considered for a discretionary bonus, Restricted Share Rights, or other long – term incentive awards.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

Posting End Date:

*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.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.