Wells Fargo

Lead Specialty Software Engineer - Capital Markets Reference Data

Wells Fargo$110K — $140K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience or equivalent
  • 5+ years designing and implementing distributed systems using Java
  • 3+ years of Java 17+ experience, utilizing modern features
  • 3+ years implementing microservices, preferably using Spring ecosystem
  • 3+ years of SQL experience including complex query optimization
  • 2+ years building event-driven architectures with Kafka or Solace

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex initiatives, delivering scalable and resilient solutions
  • Accelerate development velocity with agentic AI tools
  • Champion data quality and governance practices
  • Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency
  • Define opportunities to improve processes and reduce costs
  • Mentor less experienced software engineers
  • Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Retirement savings plan with matching contributions
  • Paid time off and holiday leave
  • Professional development and training opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements including remote work options
Full Job Description

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Specialty Software Engineer to join our Corporate and Investment Banking Technology team. This strategic role centers on modernizing and expanding our Reference Data Platform, a critical application supporting Capital Markets business & trading. You will lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance systems for ingesting, mastering, and distributing financial instruments reference data - requiring deep hands-on expertise in scalable data processing and distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed systems development, accelerated delivery leveraging agentic AI tools, and a proven ability to lead initiatives while ensuring operational excellence, risk management, and regulatory compliance.


In this role, you will:

  • Lead complex initiatives on selected domains, delivering scalable and resilient solutions.

  • Accelerate development velocity by leveragingagentic AI toolsacross the team's engineering workflows.

  • Champion data quality and governance practices including golden-source determination, cross-vendor reconciliation, and data lineage tracking across the reference data platform.

  • Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.

  • Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.

  • Lead, design, develop, test and implement applications and system components, tools and utilities, models, simulation, and analytics to manage complex business functions using sophisticated technologies.

  • Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.

  • Lead team to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives.

  • Mentor less experienced software engineers.

  • Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers.


Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

  • 5+ years designing and implementing distributed systems using Java with expertise in memory management, concurrency, JMS, and native I/O

  • 3+ years of Java 17+, including modern features like Streams API, records, and enhanced concurrency

  • 3+ years of implementing microservices, preferably using Spring ecosystem (Boot, Batch and/or Data)

  • 3+ years of SQL experience including complex query optimization

  • 2+ years of experience building event-driven architectures using Kafka, Solace, etc.


Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience building cloud-ready solutions with Azure, GCP or OpenShift.

  • Experience developing data APIs exposed via API gateways

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Harness, GitHub Actions, or similar) and automated testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)

  • Demonstrated knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering techniques, context engineering, and spec-driven development

  • Domain expertise in Financial Instrument Reference Data including integration with market data vendors

  • Proven track record in developing low-latency, high-reliability applications for financial services or trading platforms

  • Experience using distributed caching technologies (Apache Ignite, Redis, Coherence)

  • Experience with Python (pandas, PySpark, or similar) for data transformation, enrichment, and data mastering workflows

  • Experience implementing rule-based data mastering systems

  • Front-end development experience with React

  • Well versed in Agile development strategies and ceremonies, Test Driven Development & DevOps practices

  • Strong foundation in object-oriented analysis and design, algorithms, and data structures

  • Excellent analytical and communication skills

  • Lead team to achieve objectives

  • Partner with production support and platform engineering teams

Job Expectations:

  • Develop and deliver software for Reference Data platform components as a hands-on individual contributor

  • Collaborate with Product Owners and business users to translate requirements into functional and technical specifications

  • Analyze and refactor legacy systems to align with a scalable microservice architecture

  • Design and document current-state and target-state architectures for platform modernization initiatives

  • Write high-quality, performant Java code applying object-oriented principles and proven design patterns

  • Conduct thorough unit and functional testing; document all development activities per team standards

  • Ensure quality, maintainability, and extensibility of supported systems and risk applications

  • Build resilient applications requiring near zero production support

  • Ramp quickly on new business domains within Capital Markets technology

  • Leverage agentic AI tools to accelerate delivery and maintain high code quality

  • Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes and propose solutions using AI technologies

Posting Location:

  • 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, NC 28202

Posting End Date:

30 Jun 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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