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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Manager of Data Protection Engineering to lead the transformation of the enterprise data protection platform. This leader will drive the modernization of backup, recovery, cyber resilience, and data security capabilities across on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud environments. A key focus of this role will be accelerating the adoption of modern data protection platform, enabling cloud-integrated recovery services, cyber vaulting, ransomware resilience, and operational automation at enterprise scale.

This leader will be responsible for a geographically distributed engineering organization supporting more than 500 PBs of protected data across critical business applications and infrastructure. The role requires strong technical leadership, strategic planning, and execution capabilities to deliver resilient, compliant, and cost-effective data protection services that align with Wells Fargo's cloud transformation and cyber resilience objectives.

The Senior Manager will partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering teams, Cybersecurity, Architecture, Risk, Application Development, and CIO teams to develop and execute a multi-year roadmap that modernizes the enterprise data protection ecosystem and enables greater self-service, automation, and cloud adoption.

In this role, you will:

• Define and execute the enterprise data protection strategy, aligning with cloud, cyber resilience, and infrastructure modernization initiatives
• Lead the transition from traditional backup architectures to modern, policy-driven platforms leveraging cloud-native protection services, immutable storage, and cyber recovery capabilities
• Drive adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud data protection solutions across GCP, Azure, and AWS environments
• Develop long-term roadmaps that improve recovery outcomes, reduce operational complexity, and optimize infrastructure costs
• Ensure data protection services support evolving business, regulatory, and resiliency requirements

• Engineering Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of engineers focused on platform engineering, automation, cloud integration, and service reliability
• Establish engineering standards, automation frameworks, and operational practices that improve scalability and reduce manual effort
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
• Drive modernization initiatives focused on Infrastructure as Code, API-driven automation, self-service consumption, and platform engineering principles

• Cyber Resilience & Risk Management

• Partner with Cybersecurity teams to enhance ransomware protection, cyber recovery, immutable storage strategies, and recovery testing programs.
• Ensure engineering solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements
• Lead resiliency assessments and recovery readiness initiatives to improve recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO)
• Identify and mitigate operational, security, and technology risks across the data protection ecosystem

• Vendor & Technology Management

• Serve as the executive engineering partner for strategic vendors including Cohesity and cloud providers
• Influence product roadmaps, feature prioritization, and platform enhancements to meet enterprise requirements
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends in cyber resilience, cloud backup, AI-driven operations, and data security
• Drive technology lifecycle management and modernization efforts across the backup and recovery portfolio
• Team Member Leadership Expectations
• As a Team Member Manager, you are expected to achieve success by leading yourself, your team, and the business. Specifically, you will:
• Lead with integrity and create an environment where team members feel included, valued, and empowered to perform at their highest potential
• Drive a culture focused on engineering excellence, automation, self-service adoption, and customer-centric delivery
• Develop organizational capabilities through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development
• Manage performance, risk, financial stewardship, and strategic execution while fostering collaboration across organizational boundaries

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience
• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure or platform engineering teams supporting mission-critical environments

Desired Qualifications

• Deep expertise in enterprise data protection, backup and recovery, cyber resilience, and business continuity solutions
• Strong experience with Cohesity and modern enterprise backup platforms, including Rubrik, NetBackup, Data Domain, or similar technologies
• Experience protecting workloads across hybrid cloud environments including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Knowledge of cloud-native backup, disaster recovery, immutable storage, cyber vaulting, and ransomware recovery architectures
• Experience developing and executing technology modernization and cloud transformation roadmaps
• Strong understanding of automation, Infrastructure as Code, API integration, and platform engineering practices
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and communicate technology strategy to senior leadership
• Experience partnering with Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, and Architecture organizations
• Strong strategic planning, organizational leadership, and vendor management skills
• Experience operating large-scale infrastructure environments with high availability, resiliency, and regulatory requirements
• Agile delivery and product-oriented operating model experience preferred
• Exceptional verbal, written, and executive communication skills

Job Expectations

• This position does not support visa sponsorship
• Ability to work additional hours as needed
• Flexibility to support a 24x7 enterprise environment
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

Strategic Focus

• This role will be a key leader in advancing Wells Fargo's vision of a cloud-enabled, cyber-resilient data protection platform, leveraging Cohesity and public cloud capabilities to improve security posture, recovery readiness, operational efficiency, and scalability while supporting the firm's long-term infrastructure modernization strategy.

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

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*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.

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