Senior Software Engineer - COO Tax Technology

• Act as a senior individual contributor responsible for both delivery leadership and hands-on engineering, with a primary focus on QA automation and test strategy
• Facilitate Agile and Scrum practices for one or more cross-functional development teams, ensuring adherence to enterprise Agile standards while driving delivery predictability and execution
• Guide teams to follow Agile principles and ceremonies, actively promoting prioritization, readiness, commitment, and continuous improvement across Sprints
• Serve as an escalation point for delivery, quality, and technical risks, proactively identifying and addressing blockers or systemic issues that impact team performance
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and test suites across UI, API, and backend services to ensure high-quality, compliant releases
• Embed quality engineering practices such as test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD) into the development lifecycle
• Partner closely with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure testing strategies align with business requirements, regulatory expectations, and release timelines
• Optimize team velocity and flow using empirical data, metrics, and maturity indicators to drive continuous improvement in delivery and quality outcomes
• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within distributed, service-oriented or microservices-based architectures
• Design, code, test, debug, and document software components supporting tax onboarding, withholding, reporting, and related integrations
• Collaborate with discipline managers and risk/compliance partners to ensure adherence to governance, security, SDLC, and change management standards
• Coordinate and support QA, UAT, and release readiness activities across multiple workstreams, ensuring compliance with enterprise release and change processes
• Contribute to large-scale planning and technical strategy, including modernization, automation, and CI/CD enablement efforts
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and technical direction to less experienced engineers and testers
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve complex technical and delivery challenges and achieve organizational goals
• Communicate effectively with technology leadership, business partners, and risk/compliance stakeholders to ensure transparency, alignment, and confidence in delivery outcomes

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of software engineering experience working with Java frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, or equivalent
• 4+ years of experience working in a distributed services architecture, including SOA and/or microservices
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Agile delivery, serving in roles such as Scrum Master, technical delivery lead, or Agile team facilitator. JIRA experience is essential.
• 3+ years of compliance and regulatory systems experience
• 2+ years of experience with SAS or SQL, or other data management, reporting and query tool
• 2+ years of experience using HP ALM or other testing tools
• 1 year of Knowledge and understanding of technical tax withholding and reporting compliance (1099 INT, 1099 MISC, 1099-B, 1042-S, IMY Reporting to Beneficiary Owners)
• 1+ year of experience in tax operations, tax risk mitigation, or tax compliance in a large financial institution
• 1+ year of knowledge and understanding of IRS Form W-8, exemption codes, country treaty rates and IMY withholding statements
• 1+ year of knowledge and understanding of regulatory compliance requirements surrounding FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act)

• 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, or maintaining automated testing solutions (UI, API, or backend). Experience promoting test automation strategies across multiple layers (UI, API, service, and data).
• 3+ years of strategic planning and development experience
• 1+ years of experience designing and implementing solutions for test automation using Selenium and Java
• 1+ year of experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration using tools such as Jenkins, Maven, UDeploy, or equivalent
• 1+ year of experience with cloud-based application development or deployment (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform)
• 1+ year of experience supporting UAT planning and execution, including coordination with business and compliance stakeholders
• Ability to analyze delivery and quality metrics to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and governance partners
• Experience mentoring engineers or testers and helping teams mature Agile and quality engineering practices
• Wells Fargo Enterprise Technology experience

Relocation assistance is not available for this position