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Wells Fargo is seeking a Middleware (Messaging Platforms) Strategy Owner accountable for the enterprise strategy, roadmap, governance, and adoption of messaging and event streaming capabilities across the organization. This role aligns business and technology stakeholders to ensure messaging platforms are secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, and developer-friendly, supporting integration patterns such as event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, pub/sub, and streaming. The Strategy Owner partners closely with architecture, infrastructure/platform engineering, cybersecurity, application teams, SRE/operations, and vendor partners to define standards, drive modernization, and enable consistent delivery of messaging solutions.
Job Responsibility:
Define and maintain the enterprise middleware strategy (queueing, pub/sub, streaming, caching, App/Web), including target-state architecture and technology direction
Own the multi-year roadmap for messaging platforms, balancing reliability, feature enablement, modernization, regulatory requirements, and cost optimization
Act as the product owner for middleware: define platform vision, value proposition, service catalog, and measurable outcomes
Create and maintain developer enablement assets: onboarding guides, templates, sample code, golden paths, and internal documentation
Drive adoption via training, office hours, community of practice, and clear communications
Partner with Enterprise/Domain Architects to define integration patterns and ensure alignment with broader middleware strategy
Partner with Security to ensure compliance with policies and regulations (e.g., encryption in transit/at rest, secrets management)
Own platform cost model and implement FinOps practices (showback/chargeback as applicable)
Manage vendor relationships and contracts
evaluate tooling and platform options (managed services vs self-managed)
Serve as the single point of accountability for middleware direction and decisions
Communicate roadmap progress, policy changes, and operational status to senior leadership and stakeholders
Facilitate cross-team decision-making and resolve conflicts around platform usage, priorities, and standards
Requirements:
7+ years of Business Systems Data and Business Systems Designing experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
7+ years in middleware/integration/platform engineering
3+ years in a strategic leadership, product owner, or architecture role