Software Engineering Manager - DevOps Manager

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**About this role:** Wells Fargo is seeking a Software Engineering Manager - DevOps Manager **In this role, you will:** - Manage, coach, and develop a team of individual contributor engineer roles with low to moderate complexity and less experienced managers who are responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology - Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release - Engage with architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, cloud readiness, application modernization and data strategy - Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning - Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards - Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to make decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture - 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 low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk - Collaborate and consult with the 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 for technology engineering including career development and performance management for engineers and managers on the team - Hire, mentor and guide talent development of direct reports to build the skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products **Required Qualifications:** - 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education - 2+ years of Leadership experience **Desired Qualifications:** - Be responsible for leading the DevOps function to enable reliable, scalable, and secure software delivery. This role bridges development, infrastructure, security, and operations, driving automation, cloud adoption, CI/CD maturity, and operational excellence. - Technically Lead, coach, Govern and develop a team of DevOps engineers (Junior to Senior Leads) who are responsible for building high quality build pipelines with modern technologies with moderate to high complex workflows. - Collaborate with DevOps, Development team, Run-Ops/Production Support, Pre-Production Support, Testing, Release Management & other cross functionals stakeholders, engineers, architects to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies and transformations, while understanding next generation domain architecture to enable application migration paths to target architecture; for example, middle-ware upgrades, support application modernization and so on. - Function as the technical representative for the product during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning - Identify and recommend opportunities for driving resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards - Ensure adherence to the Banking Platform Architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements with each release - Act as an escalation partner for scrum masters, Development team other stakeholders to make data-driven decisions and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement culture - 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 low to moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk. - Collaborate and consult with the 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 - Drive DevOps culture, collaboration, and continuous improvement while establishing standards, best practices, and governance. - Hire, mentor, retain and guide talent development of direct reports to build the DevOps skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for the supported product areas/products - Should have managed Java technology projects predominantly for a Banking domain. - DevOps Technical Project Management with Awareness about ITIL process & proven experience in managing DevOps or SRE teams. - AI First alignment and awareness/proficiency around AI use cases, tools and landscape. - Automation use cases for repetitive tasks. - Sound Familiarity of DevOps tools across the phases of CI & CD and preferably Azure & GCP Cloud (DevOps tools not limited to Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, Ansible, Te