Systems Engineer

Lead Systems Operations EngineerWells 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 non-functional requirements, leads capacity and performance testing for high-volume and peak payment events, and ensures robust replay, retry, and exception-handling for event-driven flows. They own permit-to-operate readiness, cutover and early life support models, and ensure runbooks, on-call readiness, and escalation paths are production-grade before go-live. The role drives end-to-end 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.In this role, you will:Lead complex, broad impact initiatives including provision of high level systems consultation for the technology teamsWork as key participant in large scale planning of computer systems and network infrastructure for Systems Operations functional areaReview 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 systemsMake decisions on technical changes and enhancementsConsult with engineering team on change design requiring solid understanding of technical process controls or standards that influence and drive new initiativesCollaborate and consult with technical peers, colleagues, and mid to more experienced level managers to resolve systems support issues and achieve goalsRequired 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, education3+ years of application support experience3+ years of Platform experience in Kubernetes / container orchestrationDesired Qualifications:2+ years of CI/CD & Automation experience in Progressive delivery, automated rollback, reliability-as-code concepts2+ years of Application Frameworks experience in Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, etc.2+ years of Data Stores & Caching experience with MongoDB, Redis2+ years of Resilience experience with Resilience4J, retry/replay patterns2+ years Observability: Distributed tracing, metrics, logging, SLO tooling2+ years Testing & Resilience Validation: BlazeMeter, Chaos MonkeyStrong experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Service Transition within a complex technology or financial services environmentDemonstrated ability to productionize new platforms, not just support themSolid understanding of high-value payment systems (Wires, RTP, SWIFT, CHIPS, FedNow) and their operational risk profileExperience working with event-driven, distributed architecturesComfortable operating in early-stage, ambiguous transformation environmentsJob Expectations:This position offers a hybrid work scheduleThis position is not eligible for Visa sponsorshipRelocation assistance is not available for this positionPosting Locations:1525 W W T Harris Blvd. - Charlotte, North Carolina 282622800 S Price Rd., Chandler, Arizona 85286Posting End Date:30 Sep 2026*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.We Value Equal OpportunityWells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.