About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking an Enterprise Architect.
In this role, you will:
- Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
- Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
- Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
- Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
- Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
- Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- 7+ years of architecture in one or a combination of the following areas: enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, infrastructure or security, or security architecture
- 7+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of experience as an enterprise architect
- 7+ years of experience leading medium and large-scale architecture change
- Adept at strategic and abstract thinking and can make trade-offs based on required architecture qualities
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to influence across all organizational levels, particularly senior management
- Ability to negotiate/challenge, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
- 3+ years of experience using industry standards such as BAG, BIAN, TOGAF and architecture modeling languages such as ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, etc. leveraging BizzDesign Horizzon
- 5+ years of experience in financial services and banking domain
- Bachelor’s and/or master’s in computer science or information systems
- Prior related experience leading and/or managing architecture strategies with architecture roadmap that aligns with business strategy and objectives
- Deep understanding of cloud technologies (GCP, Azure) and familiarity with data center exit strategies
- Good analytical skills to set data driven insights with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Lead application consolidation and rationalization efforts and the related emerging technology assessments
Job Expectations:
- Lead the development of strategy for capabilities across the bank and help influence target state architectures
- Influence specific target state architectures and credibly challenge line of business / domain architecture on alignment to enterprise goals
- Contribute to forward-looking policies, patterns, standards, non-functional requirements, methodologies and industry best practices and work with domain architects to promote adherence
- Provide leadership and guidance at architecture councils, review boards and internal and external architecture forums
- Reimagine the way Wells Fargo delivers banking capabilities to customers, employees, and other stakeholders and develop enterprise architecture strategy that enacts major business objectives
- Provide strategic thought leadership on Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, agents, microservices and other advanced techniques to drive better services, faster and more efficiently
- Assist in the development of proof-of-concept efforts (e.g., GenAI prototypes) to evaluate evolving frameworks, products, and technologies
- Perform enterprise and portfolio-level analysis to drive investment analysis, rationalization, and convergence strategies
- Perform in-depth consultation to senior management on strategic issues and opportunities
- Support data center migration efforts and understand full stack architecture to migrate dependencies accordingly
- Produce enterprise architecture specifications and documents using industry standard modeling languages and tools
- Provide thought leadership to digitize the enterprise architecture practice towards architecture-as-code model with controls/governance embedded into the framework
Posting End Date:
14 May 2025*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.
Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
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b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
