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This Technology Director role at Wells Fargo is a senior leadership position within Enterprise Functions Technology (HRIT), responsible for defining and executing the technology strategy that modernizes HR systems, data platforms, and digital employee experiences across the enterprise. The role focuses on delivering secure, governed, and auditable HR and workforce data to support core processes such as talent management, payroll, compensation, learning, workforce planning, regulatory reporting, and employee analytics, while driving cloud-based, data-driven, and AI/GenAI-enabled platforms. The leader is expected to modernize legacy systems, enable advanced analytics and automation, ensure strong data privacy and regulatory compliance, and balance innovation with risk in a highly regulated environment, while partnering closely with business and control functions to deliver accurate, resilient, and user-centric solutions.
Job Responsibility:
Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
Lead team to achieve objectives
Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers, architects, and senior managers
Ensure timely delivery of initiatives aligned with enterprise HR and People Strategy priorities
Establish strong partnerships with the CHRO and leaders across Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Payroll, Benefits, and Compensation
Define clear technology roadmaps and drive disciplined execution against them
Promote a culture focused on ownership, engineering quality, innovation, and continuous improvement
Build and execute workforce strategies to attract, grow, and retain high‑performing HR technology and data engineering talent
Lead adoption of emerging AI and automation technologies to enhance decision‑making, efficiency, and predictive capabilities
Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders on the practical application, value, and limitations of GenAI
Monitor industry trends, assess platforms and tools, and apply relevant best practices
Advocate and deliver digital transformation through cloud migration, automation, data modernization, and applied GenAI solutions
Define and execute the HR technology and people data platform strategy aligned to business goals and enterprise architecture
Lead modernization of HR platforms, including Workday (HCM, Extend, Payroll, Reporting) and dependent systems
Oversee large‑scale system implementations, upgrades, migrations, and integrations
Manage financial planning, vendor relationships, investment priorities, and resource capacity for HR technology
Own end‑to‑end delivery of enterprise people data platforms supporting structured and unstructured HR data at scale
Design and implement cloud‑native data solutions using modern engineering frameworks
Establish best practices for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, scalability, and performance
Enable batch and near‑real‑time data processing to support analytics and operational HR use cases
Lead complex, globally distributed HR technology and data engineering organizations
Act as a strategic technology advisor to senior HR, business, risk, and technology leaders
Shape and influence enterprise‑wide HRIT and digital employee experience strategies
Represent HR Technology in enterprise governance bodies and relevant industry forums
Requirements:
10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5–10+ years of progressive leadership experience in HR Technology or HRIS
Proven track record of building & strengthening strategic partnership with senior executives, including the CIOs/CTOs, to shape product strategy, implement cutting-edge technology solutions, drive Innovation, and manage risk effectively
Strong experience in shaping and executing enterprise‑aligned technology strategy with a clear line of sight to business and people outcomes
Proven track record delivering large‑scale transformation programs
Anticipates future needs and positions the organization for scalability, resilience, and innovation
Lead, architect and deliver Agentic AI platforms leveraging LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and agent to agent communication to enable autonomous and semi autonomous HR workflows and integrate with champion platforms (e.g., Workday, ServiceNow)
Proven experience to Influence roadmap decisions and investment priorities for AI initiatives
Translate complex HR business processes into agentic workflows, leveraging GenAI, LLMs, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and agent to agent coordination to enable decision making, task execution, and intelligent routing to human agents when required
Ensure responsible AI and security controls—guardrails, PII filtering, DLP, red-teaming, and safe deployment practices
Experience enabling AI / GenAI use cases within HR technology ecosystems/ enterprise platforms
Demonstrated experience with enterprise HRIS architecture, including designing and managing complex integrations, APIs, and end‑to‑end system data flows across HR, Payroll, Finance, and downstream platforms
Strong background in integrations, SaaS ecosystems and cloud platforms
Possess deep domain expertise across corporate HR functions, including Core HR, Time & Absence, Payroll, Compensation & Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance management, Learning & Development, Employee Relations, and Conduct Management
Strong understanding of modern cloud architectures, APIs, Agile/DevOps, and platform engineering
Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams
Ability to exercise judgements, problem solve, and make decisions consistent with Wells Fargo’s philosophy, goals, and objectives
Ability to deal with constant changes and act as a change champion
Demonstrates executive presence, clarity, and confidence