Systems Operations Manager – Data Platforms -Teradata & Hadoop

Systems Operations Manager – Data Platforms (Teradata & Hadoop) Wells Fargo is back in the office collaborating for fabulous outcomes. This role is in the office three days a week. No visa sponsorship or visa transfers. About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Systems Operations Manager to lead the end-to-end support and operations of enterprise Teradata and Hadoop data platforms powering large-scale analytics and business decisioning. This role is accountable for platform stability, reliability, and operational excellence across a complex, multi-tenant ecosystem supporting 100 tenants. The manager will lead a 24x7 operations team, apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and drive automation-led transformation to ensure predictable, resilient service delivery at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong execution discipline, ownership, and the ability to operate in a high-risk, regulated environment, ensuring SLA adherence, compliance, and business continuity outcomes. In this role, you will: Operational Leadership & Platform Ownership Lead end-to-end platform operations for Teradata and Hadoop environments, ensuring availability, performance, and resilience Provide clear ownership and accountability for production services, operational outcomes, and service stability welDrive incident, problem, and change management, including major incident command and recovery leadership Lead 24x7 global support operations, including on-call governance and escalation management Operational Excellence & Service Performance Own and drive SLA/OLA adherence, uptime, and service health metrics Lead capacity management, performance tuning, and proactive issue prevention initiatives Establish and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and service management practices Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and long-term remediation of systemic issues Drive adoption of automation, observability, and AIOps practices to reduce manual toil and improve MTTR. Governance, Risk & Compliance Ensure alignment with enterprise risk, compliance, and change management frameworks Drive patching, vulnerability remediation, and platform security posture Maintain audit readiness, documentation quality, and control adherence Identify, escalate, and mitigate operational and platform risks Multi-Tenant Platform Operations Manage operations across shared, multi-tenant platforms, ensuring workload isolation and stability Oversee resource allocation, scheduler configuration, and workload prioritization Execute in high-risk production environments where changes impact multiple tenants simultaneously Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Automation Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and scalability of data platforms Drive automation-first operations to eliminate manual toil and standardize service delivery Implement and enhance observability, monitoring, and self-service capabilities Partner with engineering teams to improve platform reliability, operability, and service maturity Drive adoption of automation, observability, and AIOps practices to reduce manual toil and improve MTTR. Stakeholder Engagement & Execution Alignment Partner with Engineering, CIO-aligned teams, Cybersecurity, and LOB stakeholders Provide clear, executive-ready communication on platform health, risks, and priorities Drive cross-functional accountability and execution discipline across teams People Leadership & Talent Development Lead, coach, and develop a team of Systems Operations engineers and analysts Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and operational excellence Manage resource allocation, workforce planning, and vendor/partner support Develop team capabilities in SRE practices, automation, and platform operations maturity Resiliency & Business Continuity Ensure resiliency posture across Teradata and Hadoop platforms, including: Disaster recovery (DR) readiness and execution RTO/RPO alignment and validation Continuous improvement of recovery capabilities Lead BCP execution and failover coordination for critical platforms Required Qualifications: 5 years of Systems Engineering, and Technology Architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 2 years of Leadership experience Hands-on experience with: Teradata and Hadoop platforms Distributed systems and data platform operations Incident, problem, and change management processes Desired Qualifications: Experience supporting enterprise-scale Teradata and Hadoop platforms Demonstrated leadership in 24x7 production support and SRE environments Strong experience in: Automation, AIOps, and operational transformation DevSecOps and CI/CD practices Observability, monitoring, and platform telemetry Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native architectures Strong understanding of: Multi-tenant data platforms and workload management Regulatory, audit, and risk-controlled environments Job Expectations: Provide full operational ownership of Teradata and Hadoop platforms Drive platform reliability, stability, and performance improvements Ensure compliance, patching, and security governance alignment Operate within a 24x7 production support model, including on-call leadership Partner across CIO organizations to deliver scalable, resilient data platform services Posting End Date: 9 Jul 2026 *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. 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