Lead Specialty Software Engineer – Full stack Developer

About this role:

The Chief Operating Office Technology (COO Tech) organization, provides technology services for the Chief Operating Office. This includes operations, control executives, strategic execution, business continuity and resiliency, data solutions and services, regulatory relations, customer experience, enterprise shared services, supply chain management, and the corporate properties group. COO Technology provides technology solutions and manages application portfolios for these groups to support modernization and optimization. CAO Technology is the dedicated technology team supporting Corporate Properties, Corporate Security, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resiliency, Privacy, CAO Data and Insights technology needs.

Within COO Technology we are seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer who is a technology product and systems professional to support the Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) platform and associated workplace technology initiatives. This role serves as a key liaison between platform architects, business stakeholders, technology teams, operations, and vendors to drive product strategy, roadmap execution, process optimization, requirements management, testing, and production support.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as the end-to-end owner for assigned WSD capabilities, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology strategy, and execution
• Demonstrate strong technical acumen to effectively partner with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams
• Proactively identify delivery, technical, operational, and dependency risks before they impact project timelines or business operations
• Maintain clear visibility into application health, production issues, integration performance, technical debt, and upcoming platform changes
• Drive resolution of complex technical and business challenges by facilitating collaboration across multiple teams
• Provide leadership during incidents, production support events, and major releases, including issue triage, root-cause analysis, prioritization, and communication
• Partner with engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, supportable, and secure technical solutions
• Ensure quality through active participation in solution reviews, test planning, validation activities, release readiness assessments, and post-implementation reviews
• Continuously monitor industry trends, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and platform optimization
• Proactively look ahead to roadmap commitments, capacity constraints, dependency risks, compliance requirements, and future business needs rather than reacting to issues after they occur
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with product owners, business stakeholders, technology teams, operations partners, and vendors to ensure successful delivery outcomes
• Champion operational excellence through data-driven decision making, service metrics, adoption monitoring, and continuous improvement 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 hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot
• 4+ years of SQL Server development experience, including complex queries and stored procedures
• 3+ years of experience with software & system architecture
• 2+ years of front-end development experience using Angular and/or React
• 1+ years of experience in AI-related development

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced oral, written and presentation communications including the ability to present technical information in a way that non-technical audiences will understand
• Experience with hands-on ServiceNow development and implementation experience
• Experience with SDLC tools and CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Sonar, Maven, Gradle, or comparable toolchains
• Knowledge of OpenShift Container Platform and deployment tools such as Harness
• Experience designing and supporting microservices based architecture
• Experience with Python
• Knowledge and practical application of test-driven development (TDD)
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum development environments
• Experience with Kafka or event driven architectures
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, such as Elastic, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, Splunk, or Dynatrace
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues and make sound, risk-aware decisions
• Knowledge of operational dashboards, reporting, and adoption metrics.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology deployments.
• Proven experience with enterprise data and integrations, including real estate canonical data models, platform integrations, APIs, microservices, service-to-service communication, and modern data platforms

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Must be able to work on-site at the listed location

Posting End Date:

30 Sep 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.

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