About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Systems Operations Engineer in technology as part of Commercial and Corporate & Investment Banking Technology (CCIBT). Team is seeking a Payments Modernization Platform Engineer / SRE to join Payments & Liquidity Technology (GPLT), supporting the transformation of the high-value payments landscape as we modernize legacy wire platforms onto a new, event-driven, cloud-native architecture. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, service management, and reliability. You will be embedded early in the Payments Modernization lifecycle to ensure platforms are operable, resilient, observable, and supportable by design, not retrofitted after go-live. You will work closely with Application Engineering, Architecture and Service Operations teams to shape how new payment capabilities are built, tested, released, and stabilized at scale.

This role embeds Site Reliability Engineering and production engineering practices into Payments Modernization initiatives from design through early life support, ensuring platforms are resilient, scalable, observable, and operationally ready. The engineer defines and validates nonfunctional requirements, leads capacity and performance testing for highvolume and peak payment events, and ensures robust replay, retry, and exceptionhandling for eventdriven flows. They own permittooperate readiness, cutover and early life support models, and ensure runbooks, oncall readiness, and escalation paths are productiongrade before golive. The role drives endtoend observability, SLOs and error budgets, reduces alert noise, and analyzes early defect patterns to stabilize services. Through chaos engineering, blameless RCAs, and continuous service improvement, this position strengthens recovery, reduces risk, and improves the reliability of critical payment platforms.

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In this role, you will:

• Lead complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high level systems consultation for the technology teams

• Work as key participant in large scale planning of computer systems and network infrastructure for Systems Operations functional area

• Review and analyze complex technical challenges, as well as escalated support issues related to core business solutions that require in depth evaluation of multiple factors, such as alternatives, enhancements, periodic systems reviews, or improvements to existing systems

• Make decisions on technical changes and enhancements

• Consult with engineering team on change design requiring solid understanding of technical process controls or standards that influence and drive new initiatives

• Collaborate and consult with technical peers, colleagues, and mid to more experienced level managers to resolve systems support issues and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years of application support experience

• 3+ years of Platform experience in Kubernetes / container orchestration

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of CI/CD & Automation experience in Progressive delivery, automated rollback, reliability-as-code concepts

• 2+ years of Application Frameworks experience in Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, etc.

• 2+ years of Data Stores & Caching experience with MongoDB, Redis

• 2+ years of Resilience experience with Resilience4J, retry/replay patterns

• 2+ years Observability: Distributed tracing, metrics, logging, SLO tooling

• 2+ years Testing & Resilience Validation: BlazeMeter, Chaos Monkey

• Strong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Service Transition within a complex technology or financial services environment

• Demonstrated ability to productionize new platforms, not just support them

• Solid understanding of high-value payment systems (Wires, RTP, SWIFT, CHIPS, FedNow) and their operational risk profile

• Experience working with event-driven, distributed architectures

• Comfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous transformation environments

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting Locations:

• 2800 S Price Rd., Chandler, Arizona 85286

• 1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - Charlotte, North Carolina 28262