Senior Platform Architect - GCP

at  Wells Fargo

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WELLS FARGO RECRUITMENT AND HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 6+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years specializing in GCP
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and deploying scalable, secure cloud environments using GCP services (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Kubernetes Engine, etc.)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Powershell, and Azure DevOps.
• 3+ years of experience deploying architecture solutions into cloud environments via CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of experience with architecture diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, LucidChart, Miro, etc.

Desired Qualifications:

• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification desired.
• Proven experience in the design, deployment, and management of large-scale cloud solutions (preferably in financial services environments)
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles including encryption and identity, networking policies, and access management.
• Exposure to cloud governance and logging/monitoring tooling.
• Understanding, engineering and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Platform Architect specializing in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to design, implement, and drive enablement of comprehensive cloud solutions for Enterprise Functions Technologies (EFT).

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of GCP cloud architecture solutions to meet EFT’s business needs.
• Collaborate with IT teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to define and implement cloud strategies.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, governance, and compliance, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and cloud security frameworks.
• Drive the adoption of automation and DevOps methodologies for continuous integration/continuous deployment for the cloud solutions that are designed.
• Optimize cloud resources for performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to cloud engineers and development teams.
• Stay up to date with emerging cloud technologies and trends and help guide adoption of their use within EFT.
• Ensure cloud designs meet disaster recovery and business continuity requirements while providing playbooks on how to execute against the design expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 6+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years specializing in GCP
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing and deploying scalable, secure cloud environments using GCP services (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Kubernetes Engine, etc.)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Powershell, and Azure DevOps.
• 3+ years of experience deploying architecture solutions into cloud environments via CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of experience with architecture diagramming tools (e.g., Visio, LucidChart, Miro, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Google Professional Cloud Architect certification desired.
• Proven experience in the design, deployment, and management of large-scale cloud solutions (preferably in financial services environments)
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles including encryption and identity, networking policies, and access management.
• Exposure to cloud governance and logging/monitoring tooling.
• Understanding, engineering and implementing disaster recovery and business continuity playbooks
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Ability to work on-site at approved location listed
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position