Job Description

Job Description
About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.9 trillion in assets. Wells Fargos vision is to satisfy our customers financial needs and help them succeed financially. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through 7,600 locations, more than 13,000 ATMs, the internet (wellsfargo.com) and mobile banking, and has offices in 32 countries and territories to support customers who conduct business in the global economy. With approximately 263,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States. Wells Fargo & Company was ranked No. 29 on Fortunes 2019 rankings of Americas largest corporations.

Wealth and Investment Management Technology (WIMT)

The Wealth and Investment Management Technology (WIMT) group provides technology solutions to four key business lines for Wealth & Investment Management (WIM); Wells Fargo Advisors, Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Wells Fargo Asset Management, Wells Fargo Retirement, which is one of the nation's leading providers of investment services. WIMT provides technology solutions and manages application portfolios in terms of skills, stability, security, scalability, speed, and cost.

Investment Solutions and Digital Technology Platform Services Leader

Reporting directly to the Head of Wealth & Investment Management Technology Platform Management, the Investment Solutions and Digital Technology Platform Services Leader will provide support across the WIMT organization to drive the Platform Service Transformation journey and will lead the platform support teams to build safe and sound client-centric solutions.

The Investment Solutions and Digital Technology Leader will help to drive the Platform Service Transformation journey. Enabling Platform Services to pivot from doing manual work and moving to more automation and thereby rendering operating efficiencies that enable our WIM business partners for faster issue resolutions.

This leader will partner with the Wealth & Investment Management Technology teams to support the platform technology systems and will lead the platform support teams to build safe and sound client-centric solutions focused on portfolio management, trading, research, investment product modeling, and portfolio implementation. The Leader will be accountable for the technology platforms and will lead the technology platform teams to build safe and sound client-centric solutions. This executives key responsibilities include:

* Drive standardized technology in support of Investment Solutions and Digital Technology across the organization
* Manage all advisory services platform technologies
* With respect to health and hygiene, BCP, resiliency programs and adoption of SRE and DevOps practices Host Business LOB/WIMT operating metrics reviews where data is leveraged to shine the light on key issues, challenges, gaps and solutions.
* Drive better development standards, adoption of Enterprise tooling such as EPL, SRE, DevOps, etc.
* Drive bidirectional strategy development and implementation related to advisory services technology practices.
* Manage all initiatives aligned to Investment Solutions and Digital Technology in support of the transformational and customer journey activities identified to drive enhanced technology services
* Partner with senior Risk and Technology leaders and their teams on information security related matters
* Assist with monitoring, reporting and tracking across WIMT Platform Services
* Drive a collaborative environment that ensures timely communication and strong cooperation between WIM technology and the lines of business.

This executive and their peer Technology Service Leaders will work across WIM technology, Development teams, Architecture, Transformation and all other enterprise technology groups to holistically standardize operational and service offerings engineering and enablement practices and lead the platform services transformation journey.

This person must be able to:

* Lead a team of subject matter experts
* Lead and influence across a matrixed environment
* Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership
* Proactively drive requirements to ensure effective Information and Cybersecurity outcomes in their aligned business groups

Critical Leadership Capabilities

Strategic Thinking

* Explains specifically how changes in threat actors, competitors, clients, and market segments affect own business or institution.
* Translates broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans for units and individuals.
* Creates plans that address specific segments or contrasts local market with other locations or segments.
* Thinks 2-3 years ahead.

Driving Results

* Works to achieve goals while overcoming obstacles and/or planning for contingencies.
* Drives urgency about reaching targets and closing security risks.
* Reviews performance and progress on a regular basis to ensure team is achieving results.
* Tests to see if goals are sufficiently challenging and implements corrective action based on deviations.
* Comfortable escalating concerns and issues to management and able to defend their concern.

Collaborating and Influencing

* The candidate will need the ability to communicate complex technical, information protection and cyber defense issues and value/impact in simple terms to very senior business and technology leaders.
* Will bring a passion to change the culture within the technology organization alongside an ability to enter a culture where influence and collaboration is critical to driving change constructively.
* Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach, where both act as true peers and decisions are shared.
* Spends time identifying key stakeholders and meets or connects with each of them, neglecting no one to shape a collective consensus.
* Identifies opportunities to build relationships that will help others achieve their objectives and reaches out to those people or new people.
* Partner closely with Govt agencies, intelligence community and Law enforcement

Building People Capability

* Dedicates time and energy to maintaining and growing followership of high-caliber, highly-motivated talent.
* Gives critical feedback in behavioral terms and discusses suggestions for improvement.
* Uses existing institutional programs and brings new practices and strategies to support employees career growth in individual ways.
* Uses a regular assessment and feedback process to focus the development effort.

Required Qualifications
* 7+ years of technology experience
* 5+ years of experience with strategic planning in a technology environment
* 3+ years of experience with leadership in an enterprise technology environment

Desired Qualifications
* Experience managing large or multiple technology development efforts within a major line of business
* Ability to influence across all organizational levels, particularly senior management

Other Desired Qualifications
* 5+ year experience leading Cyber Engineering teams
* A high level of expertise across the SDLC tool chain GITHUB, PCF, Jenkins.
* Experience in managing non-productions QA environments.
* A high level of comfort working with ambiguity or uncertainty and converting information into quantifiable concepts
* Strong executive presence, the ability to interact and communicate with C-level executives and regulators
* Strong organizational and project management skills with an ability to manage numerous, competing demands from internal and external stakeholders
* Strong leadership and influencing skills within a complex, matrixed environment; able to gain support and cooperation and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members to achieve results without direct organizational control
* Demonstrated experience in managing strategic planning processes, initiatives and teams thinking about business, product, and technical challenges
* Strong ability to effectively communicate and broker agreements amongst diverse, differing, competing, and/or conflicting perspectives/priorities
* Understanding of how traditional Fortune 100 companies must modify/adapt to take on large-scale transformation efforts
* Finance sector security experience or other regulated industry (e.g. utilities, health care, government)

Disclaimer

All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.
Wells Fargo is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.