Integrated Governance Platform Engineering (Executive Director)

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Director of Risk and Compliance Platform Engineering to lead the engineering and operations of a secure, scalable, and resilient platform that underpins the company’s risk and compliance capabilities.

This is a high-impact leadership role, ideal for a technically proficient and analytically minded professional who thrives at the intersection of platform engineering, cybersecurity, data systems, and regulatory compliance. In this role, you will guide a skilled team of engineers and managers, fostering collaboration across security, technology, and business units to deliver core services that strengthen Wells Fargo’s risk and compliance posture.

In this role, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop experienced engineers and engineering managers responsible for building secure and scalable risk and compliance platforms.
• Ensure architecture alignment with Wells Fargo's platform, infrastructure, and cloud strategies, meeting non-functional requirements such as performance, observability, and security.
• Partner with enterprise architects and domain experts to drive modernization of risk and compliance systems, enabling cloud readiness, infrastructure-as-code, and application resilience.
• Serve as the technical lead across multiple platform initiatives, ensuring cohesion, efficiency, and engineering excellence.
• Identify and recommend solutions to overcome technical roadblocks, improve system reliability, and accelerate delivery across the full software development lifecycle.
• Remove impediments and promote a learning culture grounded in agile and DevSecOps principles.
• Provide technical guidance through code reviews, architectural reviews, and hands-on mentorship, ensuring adherence to best practices and platform standards.
• Design for and ensure the stability, scalability, and security of critical systems; lead efforts to proactively mitigate technology and operational risks.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to translate business needs into technical requirements, influence roadmap prioritization, and advocate for secure, compliant, and modern solutions.
• Engage with third-party vendors and partners to evaluate and integrate best-of-breed technology solutions for compliance automation, threat detection, and policy enforcement.
• Manage resources, budgets, and strategic deliverables aligned with business goals and enterprise engineering strategy.
• Hire and develop talent, promoting a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and belonging.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Software Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Management or leadership experience.
• Experience in Security, software or platform engineering, or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• Experience of management or leadership experience, including managing engineering teams or platforms at scale.
• Proven experience in building and operating platforms or services in highly regulated environments (e.g., financial services, telco, or healthcare).
• Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and secure development lifecycle.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with security and compliance tooling, such as threat intelligence platforms, detection pipelines, or audit and policy automation.
• Strong programming background in Python, Java, or Go, and familiarity with CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Env0, GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud security best practices.
• Familiarity with risk, compliance, or cybersecurity/resilience regulations and frameworks (e.g., SOX, FFIEC, DORA, NIST, ISO 27001).
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with a strong track record of cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience contributing to or leading open-source security or infrastructure tools is a plus.

Posting End Date: 

*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:

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

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.