Wells Fargo
Website:
wellsfargo.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/wellsfargo
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Financial Services, Investment Management, and Banking
Job details:
About This Role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer
In This Role, You Will
- Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
- Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
- Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
- Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
- Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
- Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
- Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- Design and govern enterprise-scale authorization, understanding of identity lifecycles (Joiner-Mover-Leaver), and enforcing least privilege and Zero Trust. Expertise in RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, and hybrid RBAC+ABAC models at scale
- Define and enforce enterprise authorization policies, ensure segregation of duties (SoD), and architect policy-based access control using PDP, PEP, PAP, and PIP patterns.
- Experience with policy engines (e.g., PlainID, OPA, custom PDPs) and policy-as-code is expected.
- OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, federation, and SSO
- Designs secure integration patterns using LDAP, API- and JDBC-based access, enforcing least privilege with token-based auth, mTLS, and controlled service accounts.
- Lead Non-Human Access (NHA) strategies by replacing static credentials with workload identities and short-lived secrets.
- Expertise in vault-based secret management (dynamic credentials, rotation, auditing) integrated with OpenShift/Kubernetes and VM workloads
- identity-aware access, mTLS, API gateways, and network segmentation
- Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts, including authentication, authorization, access governance (PBAC/RBAC/ABAC), identity lifecycle management, and privileged access management.
- Define and enforce enterprise authorization policies, ensure segregation of duties (SoD), and architect policy-based access control using PDP, PEP, PAP, and PIP patterns.
- Hands-on experience working with and leading Agile teams using frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, with a focus on delivering measurable business and security outcomes.
- Strong understanding of enterprise IAM ecosystems, including Access management, provisioning-deprovisioning, Certifications platforms.
- Strong ability to identify, assess, and proactively manage risks, interdependencies, and cross-functional impacts in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Work Location - Bangalore / Hyderabad
Job Expectations:
- Design, architect and deliver innovation and modernization across IAM domains including Authorization, Policy based access management (PBAC), Access governance, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, and emerging areas such as dynamic access (ABAC/ReBAC), JIT access, and AI/agent identity governance.
- Define and track measurable outcomes including improvements in identity risk posture, access governance maturity, adoption, and user experience.
- Partner closely with engineering, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions.
Posting End Date:
30 Aug 2026
- Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells 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.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants With Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment And Hiring Requirements
- Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
- Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
Reference Number
R-563377
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