Wells Fargo · 8 hours ago
Senior Data Engineering Manager - GCP Frameworks
Wells Fargo is a leading financial services company, and they are seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Data Engineering organization. The role involves owning strategy and execution for enterprise data migration and building data products on Google Cloud Platform while managing high-performing teams.
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Responsibilities
Manage, coach, and grow multiple agile teams (data engineering, platform engineering, SRE/DevOps, QA) to deliver high-quality, resilient data capabilities; build a culture of talent development, engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
Define and drive the roadmap for GCP-based data platforms (BigQuery, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataproc/Spark, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataplex, Data Catalog)
Lead the migration of legacy data pipelines, warehouses, and integration workloads to GCP (including CDC, batch & streaming, API-first data products, and event-driven architectures)
Partner with enterprise, data, and security architects to align on target state architecture, data modeling (dimensional, Data Vault), and domain-driven data products; establish and enforce DataOps and DevSecOps practices (CI/CD, IaC/Terraform, automated testing, observability)
Embed defense-in-depth-VPC Service Controls, private IP, CMEK/Cloud KMS, DLP, IAM least privilege, tokenization, data masking, and lineage; ensure adherence to financial services regulations and standards (e.g., SOX, GLBA, BCBS 239, model governance)
Define SLOs/SLIs, runbooks, incident response, capacity planning, and performance tuning for BigQuery/Dataflow/Spark workloads; optimize cost and performance via partitioning/clustering, workload management, autoscaling, and right-sizing
Influence senior technology leaders and business stakeholders; translate business needs into platform roadmaps and measurable outcomes; manage budgets, resource plans, and strategic vendor/partner engagements
Scale onboarding of lines of business to the platform, including templates, blueprints, guardrails, and self-service developer experience
Qualification
Required
6+ years of Data 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
3+ years of direct report management experience of multi-disciplinary engineering teams including, but not limited to, assigning tasks, conducting performance evaluations and determining salary adjustments
6+ years hands-on in data engineering and platform build-outs using modern stacks and automation
4+ years of production experience on GCP with several of: BigQuery, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, Dataproc/Spark, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataplex, Data Catalog
6+ years of experience with programming and data skills: SQL plus one or more of Python, Java, Scala; solid understanding of data modeling and data quality frameworks
4+ years of experience with DevOps/DataOps proficiency: CI/CD, Terraform/IaC, automated testing, observability, GitOps
6+ years of experience leading large-scale data platform migrations or modernizations in regulated environments
3+ years leading AI/ML and Generative AI data initiatives
Preferred
Certifications: Google Professional Data Engineer and/or Google Professional Cloud Architect (plus: CKA/CKAD, OpenShift, Azure/AWS exposure)
Experience with dbt, Great Expectations, OpenLineage/Marquez, DataHub, or similar data quality/lineage/governance tools
Experience with Kafka/Confluent and event-driven architectures; Databricks on GCP and/or Vertex AI (MLOps) exposure
Security-by-design: IAM, KMS/CMEK, VPC Service Controls, private services, network segmentation, DLP, and sensitive data handling (PII/PCI)
Financial services domain knowledge (e.g., risk reporting, liquidity, AML/fraud, trading, consumer banking) and familiarity with SOX, GLBA, BCBS 239, model risk management practices
Track record driving change management in large, matrixed organizations and establishing platform guardrails and golden paths at scale
Communicate crisply with engineers through executives; create clear decision frameworks and status for senior leadership
Operate effectively in a matrix; influence without direct authority and build trusted partnerships across Technology, Risk, and Business
Thrive in ambiguity; facilitate structured problem-solving to converge on pragmatic solutions
Make high-quality decisions quickly with a results-oriented, collaborative leadership style
Serve as an internal thought leader on GCP data platforms, data products, and modern engineering
Benefits
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
Company
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a financial services firm that provides banking, insurance, investments, and mortgage services.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1978-10-06IPO
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