About this role:
Embark on an exciting career journey with Wells Fargo, a prominent global bank recognized for its commitment to innovation and excellence. We're currently seeking a seasoned Senior Specialty Systems Operations Engineer to provide advanced platform support for our Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT) organization. In this role, you'll have the chance to lead complex initiatives and contribute to the strategic planning of our computer systems and network infrastructure.
As a key member of our team, you'll leverage your expertise to review and analyze complex technical challenges, making decisions on enhancements and improvements to existing systems. Your role will involve collaborating with engineering teams on change design and consulting with technical peers and managers to resolve support issues and drive new initiatives forward. With your solid understanding of technical process controls and standards, you'll play a vital role in shaping the future of our technology landscape.
Led by Sarah Berwick, the Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT) group supports the Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking businesses as well as Payment Solutions, Capital Markets Services, Wholesale Digitization, and International Technology across the firm. This diverse portfolio of capabilities spans multiple technology disciplines and strategic innovations. CCIBT provides strategic, enterprise-wide technology capabilities and enabling services to our lines of business and management of the applications in terms of skills, stability, security, scalability, speed, and cost.
Join us at Wells Fargo, where you'll be part of a dynamic and innovative team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of banking technology. This position offers the flexibility of a hybrid work model and is perfect for individuals with a strong background in systems engineering, technology architecture, or related fields. Come be a part of our journey and make your mark in shaping the future of banking technology.
We have multiple opportunities across the following business lines which operate as part of the CCIB business family and are interested to hear about your experience in any of these areas:
- Capital Markets
- Commercial Lending & Credit Finance
- Securities Finance, Coverage & Collateral
- Payments & Treasury Management
- Wholesale Operations
In this role, you will:
- Lead or participate in managing all installed systems and infrastructure, moderately complex application upgrades and vulnerability remediation efforts, within the Systems Operations functional area
- Lead team to meet moderately complex technical deliverables while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards
- Act independently as a liaison for the line of business in support of daily inquiries, problem and incident management, project delivery, and escalations by following established guidebooks
- Liaise with functional or operational managers to understand their current and future information needs and develop plans and schedules for integrating these needs into existing operations
- Recommend solutions to resolve technical issues and achieve highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability by automating platform activities to lower human intervention time on related tasks
- Review and analyze moderately complex operational support systems, application software, and system management tools to ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Facilitate discussions on preventative action, root cause analysis and resolutions with service management
- Collaborate and consult with peers, mid-level managers, vendors and other technical personnel to resolve technical issues and achieve highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability and reliability
- Provide training and mentoring to lower experienced team members on guidebook changes and lead team to meet technical deliverables, while leveraging solid understanding of technical process controls or standards
- Collaborate with development teams to update business continuity plans and provide input on development of new and existing support guidebooks
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of systems engineering or technology architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of experience providing monitoring tools support for applications built on JAVA or .NET platforms
- 3+ years of application production support experience
- 2+ years of AppDynamic experience
- 1+ year of Splunk experience
- 1+ year of Autosys experience
Desired Qualifications:
- 1+ year of operations environment experience
- 1+ year of risk and regulatory compliance experience
- 1+ year of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) experience
- Ability to interact with all levels of an organization; including management and internal customers
- Knowledge and understanding of system monitoring and automation
- Knowledge and understanding of network automation development through scripting
- Ability to take an active role in the education, mentoring and training team members
- Experience with Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP, IBM Liberty and or WAS, WebLogic, or other similar products on UNIX and or Linux OS
- Experience with monitoring tools to solve and prevent application issues
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Leading and resolving major incidents
Job Expectations:
- Ability to work on call as assigned
- Flexibility to work in a 24/7 environment, including weekends and holidays
- Flexibility to adjust work schedule in accordance to the time zone for the market you are supporting
At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.
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.
