Software Engineering Senior Manager- Data Engineering

Overview

Lead development teams building Corporate Accounting Data applications, managing engineers and engineering managers while ensuring architecture, security and delivery standards are met.

What you'll do

• Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of experienced engineers and engineering managers in roles with moderate complexity and risk, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology.
• Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release.
• Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example cloud readiness, application modernization, data strategy.
• Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for driving escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards.
• Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement.
• 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 moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk.
• Collaborate with, partner with and influence 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 to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering.
• Hire, build and guide a culture of talent development to have the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including data engineering at enterprise scale.
• 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams or managers.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering platforms in highly regulated financial services environments.
• Strong track record of cross-functional leadership and execution.
• Data technologies: Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Databricks.
• Data platforms: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent.
• Programming: Java, Python, SQL.
• Cloud platforms (Azure, or GCP) with enterprise security controls.
• Distributed systems, APIs, and microservices.
• Data quality, lineage, reconciliation, and governance frameworks.
• DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Lead and develop large, multi-layered data engineering teams across locations.
• Build a strong leadership bench, succession plans, and a culture of engineering excellence and accountability.
• Act as a trusted technology advisor to senior business, risk, and technology leaders.
• Influence global stakeholders and contribute to enterprise-wide data strategy and transformation initiatives.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Posting end date: 27 Oct 2026.