Technology Director, Data Center Exits - Infrastructure Services & Hosting

at  Wells Fargo

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Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of Management experienc

Desired Qualifications:

• 8+ years of large-scale enterprise data center and/or application exit experience
• 8+ years of Infrastructure Services experience (compute, network, storage, firewall)
• 8+ years leadership in a hosting environment, especially in a large financial institution
• 8+ years of delivery experience with a proven track record of success
• Infrastructure Services experience (compute, network, storage, firewall)
• Effective communication of complex topics to customers and/or business executives
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and relationship building skills
• Experience with Agile practices
• Proficient with regulatory and auditor collaboration
• Ability to solve complex problems and analyze issue
• Ability to drive flawless executio

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director to lead the Infrastructure Services & Hosting Data Center Exits team. The Technology Director will build and lead a team of Technical Delivery Managers accountable for leading exits from legacy sites and platforms to the new data center portfolio. This role will lead a horizontal team of technical delivery experts to identify, plan, and execute exits to Private Cloud, IaaS, and Physical servers by collaborating with Cloud Migration Factory, CIO Sector teams, Application Development, Cyber Security, & Compute Engineering and Operations on workload migrations. Horizontal alignment and coordination across CIO Organizations/Lines of Business, Cyber Security, Compute, Network, Storage and Third Parties is essential and required. The selected candidate will have deep vertical expertise in Compute, Cyber and Network as well as efficiencies with Azure and Google technologies. Detailed assessment of the legacy application portfolio will be completed in collaboration with the Horizontal functions as the exit plan is defined and finalized. The team will plan and execute the exits with precision and no unplanned business interruption.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of success leading complex DC exit or similar initiatives for large financial services firms. The Network, Voice & Cyber Manager Technical Delivery Manager will collaborate and influence across stakeholders: Technology CIO, CTO, and Line of Business (LOB) Senior Managers & Individual contributors, architecture leaders, and engineering leaders in the Application Development, Cyber, Operations, and CTO organizations. The ability to persuade Managers, and individual contributors and the courage to have direct conversations is essential. Building and maintaining relationships is a critical success factor for the role.

In this role you will:

• Define migration strategies, apply to applications, lead cutovers
• Define migration strategy: Swing active workload to backup site while primary site is migrated, lift/shift, physical to virtual, virtual to physical
• Data replication: initial synch and ongoing deltas/changes maintained until cutover
• Define the multiple data migration strategies and use cases: database, object, NAS, backup, unstructured user data.
• Address data retention & offsite stg as part of migration
• Migration planning during green zone with planned outage
• Mitigate Risk concentration. Spread out migrations over different timeframes, i.e., do not migrate core Retail Banking & Cards applications in the same timeframe
• Align migration plans to major code releases to leverage Sector’s already planned checkout/verification activities
• Identify non-standard hosting solutions, define migration strategy: Unisys, Teradata, iSeries
• Assess multi-tenancy apps, ensure necessary resilience and capacity is built in target sites. Requires approach for applications and shared services.
• Leverage site design for improved resilience and higher levels of workload (increased densification on host platforms)
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement and risk control development by utilizing research and data in addition to in depth understanding of organizational goals, priorities, and technology while developing executable strategies and plans
• Lead Technology team by making strategic decisions to resolve highly complex issues to meet high risk deliverables
• Interpret and develop range of policies and procedures for technology business functions with moderate to high level of complexity and risk
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of professionals including technology industry leaders, financial industry leaders, analysts, and regulators, as well as interact directly with more experienced leadership and executive management
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and manage Infrastructure Services & Hosting Data Center Exits team
• Manage with Product Owners, target data center landing zone infrastructure builds. Ensure Wells technology standards, design principles, and architecture standards are followed.
• As part of exit preparation, ensure necessary Security and Cyber guardrails are in place, validated, and tested prior to exit.
• Build detailed exit plans working with Project Managers, Product Owners, and Application teams.
• Execute modernization and exit plans from legacy technologies.
• Develop and maintain an integrated exit, build, and exit roadmap with execution schedules.
• Mitigate risks associated with dependencies and ensure proper sequencing of events. Manage risk according to Wells Fargo’s Risk Management policies and processes.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of Management experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 8+ years of large-scale enterprise data center and/or application exit experience
• 8+ years of Infrastructure Services experience (compute, network, storage, firewall)
• 8+ years leadership in a hosting environment, especially in a large financial institution
• 8+ years of delivery experience with a proven track record of success
• Infrastructure Services experience (compute, network, storage, firewall)
• Effective communication of complex topics to customers and/or business executives
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and relationship building skills
• Experience with Agile practices
• Proficient with regulatory and auditor collaboration
• Ability to solve complex problems and analyze issue
• Ability to drive flawless execution

Job Expectations:

• This position does require working in a hybrid environment
• This position is not available for Visa sponsorship