Data Solutions Technology Director

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Data Solutions Technology Director. As a Technology Director, you will lead a team responsible for delivering strategic technology and data capabilities that support some of the organization's most critical business priorities. You will define technology strategy, build and develop high-performing engineering teams, and drive the design and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure solutions. This role requires a leader who can operate at both strategic and operational levels. You will partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape product roadmaps, modernize platforms, advance artificial intelligence and automation capabilities, and accelerate the adoption of modern engineering practices. You will be accountable for technology outcomes, talent development, delivery excellence, operational stability, and continuous innovation. Successful candidates will have a proven track record of leading large-scale technology initiatives, build strong engineering cultures, and translate complex business objectives into technology solutions that deliver measurable value. The ideal leader is collaborative, customer-focused, and passionate about developing talent while driving transformation through data, technology, and innovation.

The Wealth and Investment Management Technology Data Solutions and Domain Capabilities organization brings together enterprise data, analytics, and technology capabilities to deliver trusted, scalable, and reusable solutions that power critical business outcomes. We provide the data platforms, products, and engineering capabilities that enable smarter decision-making, accelerate innovation, improve client experiences, and support responsible data management across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience
• 5+ years expertise in data modeling, warehousing, and Lakehouse architectures
• 5+ years experience owning data quality, lineage, governance, and observability frameworks
• 4+ years experience in streaming + event-driven architectures for large-scale financial data
• 4+ years experience driving data re-engineering, system decomposition, and modernization initiatives

Desired Qualifications:

• Tools: Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery
• Lead legacy-to-cloud data platform migrations
• Deep expertise in AWS / Azure / GCP (Data Lakes, Warehouses, Compute, Storage)

Job Expectations:

• Must be based in one of the above locations or willing to relocate, requiring 3 days onsite.

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$215,000.00 - $355,000.00

Posting End Date:

2 Oct 2026

*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.

Applicants with Disabilities

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Drug and Alcohol Policy

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Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.

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