Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job. It's about finding all the elements that help you thrive, in one place. #LivingTheWellLife means you're supported in life, not just work. It means having a competitive salary, a robust benefits package, and programs to support your work-life balance and well-being. It means being rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow.
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). This engineer will join the Books and Records technology team, where you will drive the design and evolution of the firm's Records Retention platforms, ensuring best-in-class scalability, resiliency, and regulatory compliance. In this role, you will lead the development of frameworks that enable consistent capture, retention, retrieval, and disposition of records across multiple lines of business, supporting SEC and other regulatory requirements. You will architect and optimize the platform, balancing immutable storage needs (e.g., WORM) with scalable services for ingestion, metadata management, search, and audit capabilities, while overseeing integration with upstream Systems of Record (SORs) to ensure reliable data and metadata provisioning, completeness, and traceability across the records lifecycle. Additionally, you will embed controls and monitoring capabilities into the platform to support legal holds, exception management, audit readiness, and regulatory reporting, making this role central to maintaining compliance, managing risk, and ensuring overall platform integrity.
This role leads key initiatives across Records Retention domains, including data ingestion, metadata management, retention, and disposition, while ensuring platform monitoring to enhance efficiency and reduce risk. Responsibilities include designing, building, and optimizing applications that support the records lifecycle and audit requirements, as well as identifying opportunities to improve processes, resource utilization, and cost efficiency. The position requires resolving complex technical and production issues, driving compliance and risk initiatives in partnership with stakeholders, and collaborating closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Technology, and platform teams to ensure system stability and scalability. Additionally, the role provides mentorship to team members and promotes strong engineering best practices across the organization.
Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com .
In this role, you will:
Lead complex initiatives on selected domains
Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk
Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost
Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies
Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature
Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
Mentor less experienced software engineers
Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
Lead team to achieve objectives
Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot
5+ year of experience with DevOps such as CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Gradle, Jenkins and/or uDeploy
5+ year of experience with Autosys or similar enterprise schedulers
5+ year of testing experience including JUnit and automated testing practices
Desired Qualifications:
5+ year of strong experience working in Agile SDLC environments
Strong experience building scalable, resilient platforms for data/records lifecycle management in regulated environments
Hands-on experience with distributed technologies (Redis, Apache Ignite) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), along with cloud and containerization platforms (AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)
Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and applying AI across the SDLC to improve engineering productivity and delivery
Experience integrating with upstream/downstream systems to ensure reliable data and metadata provisioning, traceability, and completeness
Solid understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in Books & Records (e.g., auditability, immutability, legal holds)
Strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills, with the ability to mentor teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders
Job Expectations:
This position offers a hybrid work schedule
This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
Relocation assistance is not available for this position
Posting Location:
150 E 42nd St., New York, NY 10017
194 Wood Ave S.- Iselin, New Jersey 08830
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$191,000.00 - $305,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs (https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/en/life-at-wells-fargo/benefits) for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:
2 Jun 2026
*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 (https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/en/diversity/disability-inclusion/) .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy (https://www.wellsfargojobs.com/en/wells-fargo-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.
Req Number: R-546911
