Lead Solutions Architect
Wells Fargo2 days ago
Base Salary
$119k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation of complex enterprise-scale Finance and Risk initiatives.
- Define current-state, target-state, transition-state, and roadmap architectures, along with reusable patterns, standards, and reference architectures.
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available data, application, API, event-driven, cloud, automation, and AI solutions.
- Lead architecture assessments, solution reviews, technical decisions, proof-of-concepts, and delivery from ideation through implementation.
- Advance information architecture through authoritative data sources, data products, governance, lineage, reconciliation, auditability, and accounting event models.
- Guide Architecture Review Board engagements and enterprise governance processes.
- Identify architectural risks, anti-patterns, technical debt, and modernization opportunities, and drive remediation.
- Evaluate practical AI/ML and Agentic AI applications for accounting, reporting, controls, reconciliations, data quality, and operational efficiency.
- Communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to senior leaders, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of architecture experience or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience emphasizing scalable systems architecture.
- Desired experience in Finance domains including corporate accounting, regulatory reporting, investment portfolio, product control, capital markets accounting, or strategic finance.
- Hands-on capability in solution architecture, data design, integration patterns, architecture modeling, and rapid prototyping.
- Experience delivering complex enterprise solutions across data, applications, integrations, cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Experience with modern data architecture, API-led architecture, event-driven patterns, cloud-native patterns, and data-centric architecture.
- Hands-on experience leveraging modern AI technologies and applying them to finance processes and controls.
- Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, analytical problem-solving, decision-making, and technical delivery skills.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable solutions while balancing risk, controls, and delivery considerations.
- Experience presenting architecture recommendations and design decisions to senior technology leaders, business executives, and Architecture Review Boards.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive alignment, take ownership, and deliver with minimal oversight.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule with required office availability in Iselin, New Jersey.
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance.
- Parental leave and critical caregiving leave.
- Discounts and savings, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, scholarships for dependent children, and adoption reimbursement.
- Employees may be eligible for incentive opportunities.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.