About this role:

• Wells Fargo is seeking an Engineering Manager – GenAI, to lead delivery of enterprise‑scale AI, ML, and Generative AI solutions within the I&O Automation organization in ITSO. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with people management, owning architecture, execution, and development of a team of approximately scrum team

In this role, you will:

• 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:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading or managing engineering teams.
• Strong experience designing and building distributed, enterprise‑scale systems.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, Angular/React, REST/SOAP APIs.
• Experience with AI/GenAI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph) and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Hands‑on experience with Generative AI and RAG pipelines (vector DBs, embeddings, retrieval).
• Strong understanding of microservices, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and IaC.
• Experience with CI/CD (Harness, Jenkins), automation and observability tools (Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog), and ServiceNow.
• Strong Agile, TDD, and DevOps practices.

Job Expectations:

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of software engineers, providing technical direction, coaching, and performance management.
• Remain hands‑on with architecture, design, and critical code paths for AI, ML, and Generative AI solutions.
• Own and drive technical strategy, solution design, and execution for multiple AI initiatives.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, coding best practices, and architectural patterns.
• Partner with product owners, architects, SRE, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.
• Lead design and architecture reviews; ensure alignment with enterprise standards, risk, compliance, and NFRs.
• Drive Agile delivery, planning, grooming, estimation, and execution.
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical and operational issues.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

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.

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