Principal SME for Financial Crimes Operations
Wells Fargo
About this role:
Within COO Technology, the Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations team is seeking a Senior Lead Technology Business Systems Consultant to play the role of Principal SME for Financial Crimes Operations technology organization. The candidate will serve as a bridge between business needs and technology solutions, ensuring alignment with organization goals and regulatory requirements. The candidate will lead complex initiatives, serve as advisory to leadership, define strategic business solutions, evaluate vendors for their capabilities and align technology solutions to business needs.
In this role, you will:
- Lead complex and unique initiatives to provide technological solutions with broad impact for cross functional businesses and technology teams
- Act as an advisory to senior leadership, with strategic business solutions to companywide technology initiatives
- Evaluate highly complex business problems and provide subject matter knowledge proficiency for technology initiatives
- Understand and ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
- Make decisions regularly for highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of domain and technology applications, and which influence companywide technology solutions
- Collaborate and consult with business and technology teams to provide comprehensive technological solutions for highly complex business problems
- Provide guidance and mentorship to individuals at all levels and provide advice to senior leadership on highly complex and strategic issues
- Ensure communication and information flow between business and technology teams
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Business Systems Data and Business Systems Designing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5+ years in a lead or SME role focused on business systems analysis.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with business process modeling, data analysis tools, and enterprise systems.
- 5+ years of experience applying Agile methodologies, managing projects, and engaging stakeholders.
- 1+ years facilitating workshops, event storming, and design thinking sessions.
Desired Qualifications:
- Expertise in Know Your Customer, Customer Due Diligence and related domain areas
- Familiarity with regulatory environments (e.g., financial services, government compliance).
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
Job Expectations:
- Must be able to work onsite in Irving, TX at least 3 days per week
*Sponsorship, or transfer of sponsorship is not available for this role
Posting End Date:
22 Sep 2025*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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.
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