About This Role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Specialty Software Engineering Senior Manager for the Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR) Analytics and Hedge Technology areas under its Investment Portfolio Technology group. This role spans multiple high priority workstreams including MSR Analytics, Hedging, and Mortgage Quant Technology.
In This Role, You Will
- Manage, coach, and develop a team or teams of engineering managers and experienced engineers in specialized domain areas, responsible for building high quality capabilities with modern technology
- Partner with, engage and influence architects and experienced engineers to incorporate Wells Fargo Technology technical strategies, while understanding next generation domain architecture and enable application migration paths to target architecture, for example, 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 escalated resolution of technology roadblocks including code, build and deployment while also managing overall software development cycle and security standards
- Determine appropriate strategy and actions to act as an escalation partner for scrum masters and the teams to meet moderate to high-risk deliverables and help remove impediments, obstacles, and friction while encouraging constant learning, experimentation, and continual improvement
- 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 moderate complexity, as well as identify, manage and mitigate technology and enterprise risk
- Collaborate with, partner with and influence 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 to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in technology engineering
- Hire, build high performing teams and guide a culture of talent development to have the specialized domain experience and skills required to effectively design and deliver innovative solutions for product areas and products to meet business objectives and strategy, as well as conduct performance management for engineers and managers
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 3+ years of management or leadership experience
Desired Qualifications:
- 18+ years of IT experience, including 10+ years in software development and 3+ years in engineering leadership or people management.
- 6+ years of experience in the Capital Markets or Investment Portfolio domains, along with an exposure to risk & valuation platforms.
- An excellent grasp of capital markets concepts, with deep experience in at least one asset class.
- Expertise in building distributed platforms for risk and valuation
- Deep understanding of fixed income and mortgage analytics, including an understanding of pricing models, interest rate risk and hedge instruments.
- Experience with container orchestration platforms, such as OCP.
- Experience in driving modernization efforts.
- Basic understanding of AI concepts and a very good grasp of tools, applications and opportunities. Demonstrated experience in AI adoption to drive positive business impact would be a plus.
- Strong hands-on background with Java/J2EE, Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, MVC, ORM/JPA/Hibernate), messaging systems (Kafka/JMS), and workflow tools.
- Proven experience building cloud-native applications using Java or similar technologies.
- Practical expertise in AI and Generative AI, with demonstrated use of AI/GenAI tools to enhance productivity or optimize engineering workflows.
- Experience leading and collaborating with global delivery teams in a matrixed environment.
Job Expectations:
- Build a high performing team with deep technical and domain expertise.
- Deliver MSR Analytics, Hedging and mortgage quant technology OKRs.
- Establish effective partnerships with business stakeholders and others across technology teams.
- Influence product and technology roadmap.
- Accelerate AI adoption and the development of Ai-enabled solutions.
- The business impact of this role is substantial. It provides technology oversight for producing daily MSR asset analytics, cashflow forecasting, and regulatory reporting. This role also directly supports the desk in its MSR interest rate risk management. The business relies on this technology function for daily hedge valuations and key rate durations to make active trading decisions.
- This leader will oversee support for the mortgage model development team, including the modernization of applications housing millions of loan-level records.
- Strong business partnering, communication, innovation mindset, and ability to challenge status quo while staying current with emerging technologies.
Posting End Date:
3 Apr 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.
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Reference Number
R-530326