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LAYIQ - Senior Lead Technology Resiliency Engineer at Wells Fargo

Enterprise Resiliency Strategy & Design
Define and evolve the enterprise technology resiliency strategy, aligned to business critical services, regulatory expectations, and long‑term technology roadmaps
Establish resiliency design principles and patterns for cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem platforms (e.g., multi‑region, multi‑AZ, active/active, degradation strategies)
Influence architecture decisions to ensure resiliency, recoverability, and operability are built in from inception—not retrofitted
Partner with enterprise and domain architects to embed resiliency requirements into standards, reference architectures, and engineering practices
Critical Services & Operational Resilience
Support identification and mapping of Important Business Services and underpinning technology dependencies
Translate business impact tolerances into actionable technology recovery objectives (RTO, RPO, MTO)
Assess end‑to‑end service resilience, identifying single points of failure across applications, data, infrastructure, vendors, and people
Drive remediation strategies for material resiliency gaps, balancing risk reduction with real‑world delivery constraints
Engineering & Platform Engagement
Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams on fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation
Review major platform and system designs from a resiliency and operability perspective
Promote modern resiliency practices such as: Chaos engineering and failure injection
Automation‑first recovery
Observability and service‑level indicators
Immutable infrastructure and infrastructure‑as‑code
Guide the adoption of resiliency tooling and metrics at scale
Incident Preparedness, Testing & Learning
Shape the firm’s approach to resilience testing, including scenario‑based testing, disaster recovery exercises, and severe‑but‑plausible events
Design and participate in enterprise simulation exercises involving technology and business stakeholders
Drive a culture of continuous learning through post‑incident analysis focused on systemic improvement rather than blame
Ensure lessons learned feed directly into architecture, standards, and engineering practices
Governance, Risk & Regulatory Alignment
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit to ensure resiliency practices meet internal policy and external regulatory expectations
Contribute to regulatory responses, exams, and remediation programs related to operational and technology resilience
Help define meaningful, decision‑useful resiliency metrics and management reporting
Act as a senior point of expertise during regulatory discussions related to technology resilience
Leadership & Influence
Serve as a subject‑matter leader within the resiliency engineering community
Mentor junior engineers and help build resiliency engineering as a distinct capability
Influence senior technology leadership by articulating complex technical risk in clear business terms
Contribute to the long‑term evolution of the bank’s technology operating model
Required Qualifications: Technical & Domain Expertise
7+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
7+ years of experience in large‑scale technology engineering, architecture, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
7 plus years Proven experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems in complex enterprise environments
7+ years' experience with: Cloud and hybrid architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP or equivalent)
Disaster recovery and availability patterns
Data replication and consistency models
Observability, monitoring, and incident management
7+ years' experience influencing architecture and design decisions at scale
Desired Qualifications: Experience in banking, capital markets, or other highly regulated industries
Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or large‑scale production operations
Experience with chaos engineering or large‑scale resilience testing
Familiarity with service management, ITIL, or modern operating model transformations
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Job Expectations: Resiliency & Risk Experience
Hands‑on experience with operational resilience, technology resilience, DR, or business continuity in regulated environments
Ability to translate business impact into technical recovery strategies
Familiarity with regulatory expectations related to technology and operational resilience (e.g., US, UK, EU financial regulators)
Leadership & Communication
Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical and executive audiences
Experience operating in highly matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders
Credibility to challenge technology decisions constructively and pragmatically
Track record of driving change through influence rather than authority

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date: 7 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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