Senior Software Engineer (Big Data Platform Operations)

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data Platform Operations) within RDS.

Risk Data Services (RDS) within the Enterprise Function Technology (EFT) business provides technology solutions & support to clients across U.S. based businesses and technology teams. Risk Data services is a multi-tenant data services platform focused on delivering simple, efficient, and sustainable data supply chain solutions catering to Corporate Risk use cases.

As a Senior Software engineer of the Risk Data Services group within Enterprise Functions Technology, you will be responsible for building and supporting data platform & tools that enable Risk related computations for Corporate Risk. The platform manages large volumes of data backed by Big Data technologies and provides compute capabilities for large datasets.

The Risk Data Platform manages large volumes of data backed by Big Data technologies and provides compute capabilities for large datasets. As a Senior Software engineer in this team, you will be an Individual contributor for Managing Risk Data Services non-production environments. You will be responsible for supporting data platform, managing access and entitlement, and ensuring proper controls. You will manage the tollgates to ensure quality of release and coordinate on issue resolutions.

In this role, you will:

• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments
• Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures
• Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Should have strong hands-on experience on big data eco system such as Hadoop distributed file system, processing frameworks such as hive & spark and/or cloud hosted data experience, preferably GCP.
• Should have 2+ years of Production/Platform Support experience in L1/L2/L3 roles
• Be able to analyze production defects, identify root cause of the issues and coordinate with relevant teams for issue resolution.
• Should have experience on Linux Operating System. Candidate should have good scripting and automation experience using any scripting language.
• Should have experience on relational (Oracle, SQL Server etc) as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Hive, HBase.
• Hands on experience or basic understanding of programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java
• Good understanding of data transformation strategies.
• Should be able to debug Hive and Spark data pipelines.
• Should have experience in doing tollgate checks/validations for application code migrating to production and be able to manage the applications.
• Experience on agile methodologies and tracking the Applications defects using Kanban board
• Identify and utilize best practices in the industry to maximize efficient and elegant solutions

Job Expectations:

• Nice to have knowledge on DevOps tools Jenkins, git and code tools
• Cloud experience, preferably GCP exposure, will be preferred.
• Preferred to have understanding of Cloudera/Hortonworks Cluster
• Certified in one of the bigdata areas: Bigdata certified developer or Administration
• Expertise in bigdata platform operations as well as support activities
• Participate in projects associated with the technology domain, including installation, upgrades, and deployment efforts
• Identify opportunity for service quality and availability within the technology domain environment
• Review and analyze technical assignments or challenges that are related to low to medium risk deliverables and that require research, evaluation, and selection of alternative technology domains
• Present recommendations for resolving issues or may escalate issues as needed to meet established service level agreements
• Exercise independent judgment while also developing understanding of given technology domain in reference to security and compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with technology colleagues, internal partners, and stakeholders

Posting End Date:
8 Jul 2025
*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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