Lead Architect - Enterprise Risk, Finance and Audit Technology

Why Wells Fargo Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader –we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. Join us! About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a hands-on Lead Architect with deep Finance experience in a major banking institution to drive architecture and solution delivery across Finance and Risk initiatives. This individual will partner with architects, data partners, technology leaders, and engineering teams to design and implement modern data, application, and AI-driven solutions. This is a hands-on practitioner role, not a pure strategy position. The ideal candidate can define architecture, solve complex data and integration challenges, develop prototypes, and lead initiatives from concept through delivery.   In this role, you will: Lead the architecture and implementation of complex, enterprise-scale Finance and Risk initiatives with broad organizational impact. Own end-to-end architecture for strategic programs, including Sub-Ledger Modernization, Corporate Accounting, CIB Capital Markets Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, and Strategic Finance capabilities. Define and maintain current-state, target-state, transition-state, and roadmap architectures, while establishing reusable patterns, standards, and reference architectures. Design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available solutions spanning data platforms, applications, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud/object storage, automation, and AI capabilities. Advance enterprise information architecture through Authoritative Data Sources (ADS), data products, governance, lineage, reconciliation, auditability, and accounting event models. Lead architecture assessments, solution reviews, technical design decisions, and proof-of-concepts; provide hands-on technical leadership from ideation through implementation. Partner across Finance, Risk, Data Management, Regulatory Reporting, Engineering, Technology Strategy, and Enterprise Architecture to align solutions and drive execution. Operate effectively in a multi-domain environment, bringing an understanding of both Finance and Risk architectures to support cross-functional regulatory, reporting, and data initiatives. Guide Architecture Review Board (ARB) engagements and governance processes, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, policies, and strategic technology direction. Identify architectural risks, anti-patterns, technical debt, and modernization opportunities, and drive remediation strategies. Evaluate and apply emerging technologies—including AI/ML and Agentic AI —to improve accounting, financial reporting, controls, reconciliations, data quality, and operational efficiency. Communicate architecture vision, decisions, and trade-offs effectively to senior leadership, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders. Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence while contributing to enterprise architecture standards and best practices.

5+ years of Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, with emphasis on scalable systems architecture.  5+ years of Finance domain experience in Corporate Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Investment Portfolio, or a