Lead Specialty Software Engineer

Company: Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: May 6, 2025

Job Description:

About this role:
Wells Fargo's Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations Technology Team is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer with experience using OpenShift and Kubernetes container technologies. The team is responsible for delivering platforms, services, and solutions to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations across the enterprise.
Our mission is to deliver stable, secure, scalable, container-based technologies and innovative services swiftly, satisfying our customers and unleashing their skills potential.
This role will focus on driving modernization and innovation, with an emphasis on cloud-native solutions.
In this role, you will:

• Provide technical expertise in microservice and container-based solutions, leveraging domain-driven design and development-driven testing.
  
• Lead and inspire the team to effectively deliver and transform solutions, partnering with business stakeholders to gather requirements, define strategies, and prioritize work for next-generation solutions.
  
• Achieve modernization milestones aligned with hosting, cloud, and modernization roadmaps.
  
• Support a culture of diversity, curiosity, problem-solving, and openness.
  
• Support complex engineering initiatives with broad impact.
  
• Resolve challenging coding, testing, and platform issues.
  
• Design solutions to increase resiliency, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.
  
• Collaborate effectively with support and platform engineering teams.
  
• Enforce modern design principles, standards, and best practices for large-scale technology solutions.
  
• Leverage industry best practices and emerging technologies to lead and influence teams.
  
• Identify opportunities to optimize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing costs.
  
• Consult with technical experts and external groups to resolve complex issues.
  
• Work in a distributed team to develop innovative cloud-centric solutions.
  
  Required Qualifications:
  
  
• 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience or equivalent, demonstrated through work, training, military service, or education.
  
• 5+ years' experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes or similar enterprise service-oriented design, development, and implementation.
  
• 5+ years in building, deploying, and scaling solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, VertX, Reactive programming, or similar.
  
• 3+ years with modern Cloud Platforms & DevOps tools such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Jenkins, GitLab, or Tekton.
  
  Desired Qualifications:
  
  
• Experience deploying cloud-native services, using Operator SDK, Helm charts, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Service Mesh, and migrating apps from CloudFoundry to OpenShift/Kubernetes.
  
• 5+ years in scalable solutions development using Java, .NET, or similar.
  
• 3+ years in Agile, CI/CD, DevOps practices with tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Tekton.
  
• 3+ years with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, New Relic, Elastic, OpenTelemetry.
  
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid infrastructure.
  
• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud-native, microservices solutions for large financial or regulated sectors.
  
• Knowledge of Financial Crimes Operations such as AML, Fraud, KYC.
  
• Cloud certification.
  
• Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating technical solutions to diverse audiences.
  
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural, matrix environment with a focus on delivery and risk management.
  
• Experience implementing risk and control requirements for cloud-native solutions.
  
  Job Expectations and Core Values:
  

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• Be Humble: Eager to learn from others.
  
• Work Transparently: Honest and direct communication.
  
• Take Ownership: Responsible and proactive.
  
• Learn More: Continuous self-education.
  
• Show Gratitude: Respectful and appreciative of colleagues.
  
  Compensation in TX, NC, and OH ranges from $120,400 to $250,000, based on experience.
  No sponsorship is available for this role.
  Posting End Date:
  6 May 2025
  *Job posting may close early due to high volume of applicants.
  We Value Equal Opportunity
  Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.
  Employees are expected to support our customer relationship focus and risk management culture, adhering to all applicable policies and procedures, and fulfilling risk and compliance obligations effectively.
  Applicants in Canada:
  Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples, and visible minorities. Accommodation is available upon request.
  Applicants with Disabilities:
  To request accommodations, visit .
  Drug and Alcohol Policy:
  Wells Fargo maintains a drug-free workplace. See our for details.
  Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
  
  
• Third-party recordings are prohibited unless authorized.
  
• Represent your own experiences honestly during the process.
  
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