Technology Director Lead Architect, Commercial Banking

Overview

In this role you will lead enterprise and portfolio architecture for Wells Fargo’s Commercial Banking business from London, guiding modernization, AI adoption, and risk-aware strategy. You will partner with senior technology and business leaders to translate strategy into actionable roadmaps and governance. The position combines senior leadership with deep hands-on architecture expertise to drive cross-domain initiatives across Commercial Banking, International Banking, and enterprise platforms. You’ll foster architecture standards, scalable patterns, and measurable business value while mentoring senior architects.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering managers and leads to deliver on enterprise priorities
• Develop actionable roadmaps aligned to strategic goals
• Drive continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Ensure security, resilience, availability, and scalability across solutions
• Oversee risk management and resource planning
• Hire and develop engineering talent and mentor teams
• Lead cross-domain projects and collaborate with regulators and external forums
• Allocate people and financial resources for technology leadership
• Foster talent development and culture aligned with business strategy
• Interface with CIOs, product, risk, and senior leaders to maintain alignment

Key requirements

• Significant experience in engineering, architecture, or technology leadership
• Experience leading major technology initiatives and cross-functional programs
• Proven success leading senior technology professionals and talent processes
• Experience defining and leading architecture strategies for large-scale enterprise systems
• Strong analytical thinking, strategic perspective, and commercial judgement
• Extensive experience influencing CIO-level executives and business stakeholders
• Deep understanding of architecture governance, risk, cybersecurity, resiliency, and regulatory expectations
• Exceptional executive communication and ability to simplify complex concepts
• Maturity, credibility, and ability to operate through ambiguity and change
• Experience designing or governing enterprise AI solutions (Generative AI, ML platforms, RAG)

• executive presence
• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• cloud and platform architecture
• distributed systems
• data architecture and integration

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