Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Architect to help shape digital strategy and the target technology ecosystem. In this role, the architect will contribute to the evolution of the target architecture toward business capabilities that are modular, composable cloud-native services on modernized infrastructure. The architect will partner with domain architects to design target banking platforms that promote reuse, resiliency, agility, and customer centricity.
The architect will be a strong technologist who can operate both broadly and deeply, with the ability to work across domains through an understanding of available technology and tools and demonstrated expertise in solution architecture practices. The candidate must be able to work effectively in a rapidly changing environment and possess strong communication, sound judgment, and reasoning skills.
Partner with senior leadership to support development and delivery of architectural frameworks for complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
Lead the resolution of complex challenges requiring evaluation across multiple areas, delivering scalable and sustainable solutions
Provide guidance on implementing transformation strategy, including documenting current state, target state, and transition architectures
Engage with professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an architectural advisor within assigned domains
Ensure applications adhere to established Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies, and industry best practices as the organization progresses toward target state architecture
Contribute to the definition and adoption of strategic tools and architecture frameworks
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and emerging technologies, recommending innovations that enhance operations or provide business value
Collaborate across teams and serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders
Contribute to the development of strategy for business capabilities and support alignment to target state architectures using modern architecture principles and data practices
Provide constructive challenge to line of business and domain architecture to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives
Contribute to policies, patterns, standards, non-functional requirements, and methodologies and promote adherence with domain architects
Participate in architecture councils, review boards, and forums
Perform portfolio-level analysis to support investment decisions, rationalization, and convergence strategies
Support data center migration efforts with understanding of full stack architecture dependencies
Produce architecture specifications and documentation using industry standard modeling languages and tools
Support efforts to ensure resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance of architecture solutions
Stay current with technology innovations and apply appropriately within domain or program scope
Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the architecture practice
Lead the implementation of complex projects and initiatives that have companywide scope
Assist in the creation of architectural artifacts for key technology initiatives
Participate in the definition of future technology architecture and strategy
Identify medium to high architectural impact projects
Conduct complex technology and system assessments for architecture solutions
Communicate the companywide Architecture strategy and direction to both management and systems related teams
Make decisions in the development and maintenance of architectures
Understand compliance and risk management requirements for supported areas
Ensure applications adhere to established Wells Fargo standards, policies, methodologies and industry best practices
Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
