Description

In this Role, You Will

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives and technology leadership in defining architecture strategy and delivering highly complex business and technology solutions across multiple organizations.
• Lead the architecture vision, modernization roadmap, and target-state strategy Global Payments and Liquidity Platforms and supporting capabilities.
• Drive enterprise-scale transformation initiatives involving private/public cloud adoption, platform modernization, application rationalization, API enablement, event-driven architectures, and resiliency engineering.
• Lead the analysis and resolution of highly complex technology challenges requiring broad architectural expertise, innovative thinking, and cross-organizational collaboration.
• Define current-state, target-state, and transition architectures that support long-term business objectives and technology modernization goals.
• Influence strategic planning, investment decisions, technology roadmaps, and execution strategies to accelerate delivery of future-state capabilities.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across business, product, engineering, security, risk, and operations organizations to align technology strategy with business outcomes.
• Drive technology investments toward modern platforms and architectural patterns while optimizing total cost of ownership, operational efficiency, and return on investment.
• Establish and govern architecture standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and technology frameworks across the portfolio.
• Ensure solutions align with Wells Fargo standards, security requirements, regulatory obligations, and industry best practices.
• Lead adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, intelligent automation, and advanced analytics capabilities that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, risk management, and developer productivity.
• Evaluate and define AI architecture patterns, Responsible AI practices, and enterprise integration approaches for AI-enabled solutions.
• Influence enterprise and vendor technology roadmaps and identify emerging technologies that provide strategic business value and competitive advantage.
• Mentor and develop architects and engineering leaders while fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous modernization.
• Define business capability maps, technology enablement strategies, and architecture roadmaps that align strategic business objectives with technology investments.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education
• 7+ years of experience developing architecture roadmaps, modernization strategies, and implementation plans aligned to business and technology objectives
• 5+ years of financial services experience, including exposure to payments processing, treasury services, commercial deposits, liquidity management, or related banking platforms
• 1+ years of Global Payments and Liquidity domains, including Wire Transfer, ACH, Real-Time Payments (RTP), ISO 20022, liquidity management, commercial deposits, treasury services, payment orchestration, or related transaction-processing platforms

Desired Qualifications

• Experience partnering with Product Managers and Product Owners to develop product-aligned architectures and technology strategies.
• Strong background in transactional systems, resiliency engineering, scalability, security, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence
• Experience leading cloud transformation and modernization initiatives across large enterprise environments.
• Experience evaluating and implementing AI, Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions
• Knowledge of AI governance, Responsible AI practices, model lifecycle management, and enterprise AI architecture patterns.
• Strong executive communication, influence, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence technology strategy across multiple organizations and architecture domains
• Extensive experience defining target-state architectures, modernization roadmaps, and enterprise technology strategies.
• Deep expertise designing and delivering highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems
• Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives involving cloud, platform modernization, APIs, integration platforms, event-driven systems, and modern engineering practices
• Experience influencing senior executives, technology leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders within complex organizations
• Experience translating business strategy, product strategy, and operational objectives into architecture roadmaps

Job Expectations

• Serve as a strategic technology advisor to leadership on architecture, modernization, innovation, and emerging technology adoption.
• Lead architecture strategy and modernization efforts across Global Payments and Liquidity
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions
• Provide architectural leadership across the Global Payments and Liquidity domain, ensuring alignment to business capabilities and strategic objectives
• Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, platform engineering, API-first strategies, event-driven architectures, and engineering best practices
• Champion AI and Generative AI adoption opportunities, identifying capabilities that improve client experience, operational efficiency, decision-making, risk management, automation, and software delivery productivity
• Collaborate with senior business leaders, product teams, engineering organizations, risk management, architecture councils, and enterprise stakeholders to drive strategic alignment
• Success in this role requires balancing strategic thinking with execution, influencing without direct authority, driving consensus across organizations, and simplifying complex business and technology challenges into actionable architectural direction
• Serve as a recognized architecture authority across the enterprise
• Required to work in the office as per the organization's Return-to-Office policy
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Relocation assistance is not available

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate