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Innovation Group

Wells Fargo Enterprise Innovation Group, established in 2015, is a companywide organization devoted to accelerating the company's delivery of next-generation customer-inspired technologies, products, and services. Serving as a catalyst for transformational change across Wells Fargo, the Innovation Group thinks outside of the box to drive long-term value to our customers. The Innovation Group partners with the Bank's businesses and customer channels to focus on creating the products, services, and use of technologies that will allow Wells Fargo to stay competitive and allow our customers to do their banking when, where, and how they would like.

The Role

The Innovation R&D (IRD) Software Engineering Scientist is a newly created individual contributor role which will help IRD to ensure it is leveraging the latest software and cloud computing solutions and methodologies for its success.

Specifically this leader will:

• Support the strategic programs with deep subject matter expertise in software architecture, cloud computing, edge computing, virtual machines, containerization, orchestration, etc.
• Interface with research labs and academic institution to establish connections and keep up-to-date with the latest trends and technology advances in this area.
• Participate in conferences and Industry associations to influence the direction of technology and research towards Wells Fargo's strategic goals.
• Technology due diligence of technologies from large enterprises and startups that we may plan to use at Wells Fargo from core science and technology perspective.

May consider other Wells Fargo locations.

• 8+ years of strategic planning experience

• 10+ years of experience in software development and cloud computing. 
• Hands on prior coding experience ideally as a full-stack developer
• Working knowledge of DevOps
• Experience with building highly scalable cloud-native solutions in an enterprise environment
• Deep expertise in latest cloud computing, virtualization, cloud orchestration, containerization and edge cloud.
• Experience in leading scientific discovery and applying scientific and technological concepts to solve specific business problems
• Comfortable with initial ambiguity and at the same driving towards pragmatic solutions in the enterprise infrastructure and software stack.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed technology team
• Ability to mobilize and motivate team(s) towards a common vision and set of objectives
• Great communications skills. High EQ and ability to work effectively in a matrix organization.
• Demonstrated creative out-of-the box, and analytical approach to problem solving
• Highly flexible, good tolerance for ambiguity and able to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Experience and/or openness to learning new development and product management tools
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) both in one-on-one and in group settings.
• 'One-team' behavior is a must (not only at R&D level but at the company-level)
• Hands-on experience in commercial development of solutions in enterprise environments.
• Minimum Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.



Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.

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