Senior Lead Technology Resiliency Engineer

Wells Fargo

. Define and evolve the enterprise technology resiliency strategy aligned to business-critical services, regulatory expectations, and technology roadmaps .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in defining and evolving technology resiliency strategies, with a strong focus on disaster recovery, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance. Capable of influencing architecture decisions and mentoring teams to enhance resiliency capabilities across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises platforms.

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Technology Resilience StrategyDisaster Recovery PlanningCloud And Hybrid ArchitecturesOperational ResilienceChaos Engineering

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Hard Skills

Systems EngineeringTechnology ArchitectureDistributed Systems DesignData ReplicationObservabilityIncident ManagementResiliency MetricsBusiness ContinuityHigh Availability PatternsRegulatory Compliance

Soft Skills

CommunicationInfluenceMentoringCollaborationChange Management

Tools & Technologies

AWSAzureGCPITILInfrastructure-As-CodeResiliency ToolingMonitoring ToolsAutomation ToolsService-Level IndicatorsSimulation Tools

Industry Keywords

BankingCapital MarketsRegulated EnvironmentsOperational ResilienceTechnology Resilience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and evolve the enterprise technology resiliency strategy aligned to business-critical services, regulatory expectations, and technology roadmaps
Establish resiliency design principles and patterns for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises platforms
Influence architecture decisions to embed resiliency, recoverability, and operability from inception
Partner with enterprise and domain architects to embed resiliency requirements into standards, reference architectures, and engineering practices
Support identification and mapping of Important Business Services and technology dependencies
Translate business impact tolerances into technology recovery objectives including RTO, RPO, and MTO
Assess end-to-end service resilience and identify single points of failure across applications, data, infrastructure, vendors, and people
Drive remediation strategies for material resiliency gaps
Advise engineering teams on fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation
Review major platform and system designs from a resiliency and operability perspective
Promote chaos engineering, failure injection, automation-first recovery, observability, service-level indicators, immutable infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code
Guide adoption of resiliency tooling and metrics at scale
Shape resilience testing through scenario-based testing, disaster recovery exercises, and severe-but-plausible event simulations
Design and participate in enterprise simulation exercises involving technology and business stakeholders
Drive post-incident analysis and continuous learning focused on systemic improvement
Ensure lessons learned feed into architecture, standards, and engineering practices
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit on internal policy and regulatory expectations
Contribute to regulatory responses, examinations, and remediation programs related to operational and technology resilience
Define meaningful resiliency metrics and management reporting
Serve as a senior subject-matter expert during regulatory discussions
Mentor junior engineers and build resiliency engineering capability
Influence senior technology leadership by articulating technical risk in business terms
Contribute to the long-term evolution of the bank's technology operating model

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of Systems Engineering, Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education
7+ years of experience in large-scale technology engineering, architecture, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
7+ years of experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems in complex enterprise environments
7+ years' experience with cloud and hybrid architectures, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent
Experience with disaster recovery and availability patterns
Experience with data replication and consistency models
Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident management
7+ years' experience influencing architecture and design decisions at scale
Hands-on experience with operational resilience, technology resilience, disaster recovery, or business continuity in regulated environments
Ability to translate business impact into technical recovery strategies
Familiarity with regulatory expectations related to technology and operational resilience
Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical and executive audiences
Experience operating in highly matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders
Credibility to challenge technology decisions constructively and pragmatically
Track record of driving change through influence rather than authority
Experience in banking, capital markets, or other highly regulated industries
Background in Site Reliability Engineering or large-scale production operations
Experience with chaos engineering or large-scale resilience testing
Familiarity with service management, ITIL, or modern operating model transformations
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience is desired

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement
Incentive opportunities may be available