About this role:Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer on the Innovation team within Cybersecurity to help drive the evolution of Cyber Defense platforms and intelligence capabilities. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com
The role operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, large-scale data engineering, cloud architecture, and advanced analytics, supporting the modernization of enterprise cyber operations.
This team is responsible for building and advancing the Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform (CTIP), enabling scalable cyber analytics, operational intelligence, AI-driven security use cases, and cross-domain visibility across the enterprise.
This role focuses on designing and engineering secure, scalable cyber data and analytics platforms that support vulnerability management, threat detection, cyber intelligence, operational resilience, exposure management and security decisioning. The engineer will lead architecture and engineering efforts across Azure and GCP, while ensuring sound data modeling, governance, platform reliability, and secure handling of sensitive cyber telemetry. The role partners closely with cybersecurity architecture, platform engineering, and data science teams to translate security and business requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions.
In this role, you will:- Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
- Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
- Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
- Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
- Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
- Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
- Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
- Demonstrate proficiency in using AI assisted development and analysis tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and approved code centric agents)
- Leverage AI to accelerate system design, coding, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting
- Apply strong technical judgment when validating and integrating AI assisted outputs into solutions
- Understand and account for model limitations, security risks, and operational considerations
- Apply AI responsibly in development and production environments
- Ensure AI usage aligns with security, compliance, privacy, and ethical standards
Required Qualifications:- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5+ years of experience in a modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C/C++, Go, or Rust)
- 5+ years of data and software engineering with a strong focus on Information Security, Cyber Defense, or security analytics platforms
Desired Qualifications:- Background in building or supporting security data platforms or analytics solutions
- Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI use cases, particularly in security or data environments
- Experience aggregating and correlating data from multiple security tools (SIEM, endpoint, network, etc.)
- Hands-on experience designing and managing data lakes, data warehouses, or hybrid data architectures with sound data modeling and governance practices
- Experience working with data platforms, databases, and data processing frameworks (e.g., Databricks or similar)
- Ability to assess risk, improve operational resilience, and deliver production-ready solutions in highly regulated environments
- Experience with data visualization, dashboards, or UX/UI collaboration, translating complex data into actionable insights
- Proven ability to translate high-level requirements into technical tasks and execution plans
- Experience working in cloud environments and supporting migration from on-prem to cloud
- Proven expertise building secure, scalable cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Locations: - 1100 Corporate Center Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
- 300 S Brevard, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
- 2600 S Price Road Chandler, Arizona 85286
- 401 Las Colinas Blvd W, Irving, Texas 75039
Job Expectations:- This position offers a hybrid work schedule in office 3 days a week
Posting Statements:- Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
- Required location(s) listed above. Relocation assistance is not available for this position
- Salary range is determined by location of the job. May be considered for a discretionary bonus, Restricted Share Rights, or other long - term incentive awards.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Posting End Date:19 Sep 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. 
