Senior Big Data Operations Engineer (002482)

At Wells Fargo, we want to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. We’re looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do.

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Wells Fargo Technology sets IT strategy; enhances the design, development, and operations of our systems; optimizes the Wells Fargo infrastructure footprint; provides information security; and enables continuous banking access through in-store, online, ATM, and other channels to Wells Fargo’s more than 70 million global customers.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. seeks a Senior Big Data Operations Engineer in Charlotte, NC.

Job Role and Responsibility:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Big Data Operations Engineer to support Risk Data Services (RDS). RDS is a multi-tenant big data platform that will provide consistent and integrated data to support Risk Management, Monitoring and reporting for various risk stripes (Credit, Market, Liquidity, Interest Rate, Model, Compliance, Operational, Strategic and Reputation Risk). RDS is a big data platform that is hosted on premises by Hortonworks that offers compute (Spark & Hive), storage (HDFS), tools and capabilities for tenants to build and manage their data assets. In this role, you will lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical domain environments. Contribute to large scale planning of strategies. Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs associated with technology domain, including upgrades and deployments. Review moderately complex technical challenges that require an in-depth evaluation of technologies and procedures. Resolve moderately complex issues and lead a team to meet existing client needs or potential new clients' needs while leveraging solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, or compliance requirements. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers to resolve technical challenges and achieve goals. Lead projects and act as an escalation point, provide guidance and direction to less experienced staff. Support the application tenant teams for setting up their respective queues (compute), storage and help with bringing their data and help processing the same through Jobs. Help with any issues with process or services and provide end-to-end support on same in Big data environment. Help support migration activities while RDS plan to move out from current infrastructure to new data centers - align to strategies and help design and migrate tenant teams within specified timelines along with supporting legacy environments. Telecommuting is permitted up to 2 days a week. Position must appear in person to the location listed as the work address.

Travel required:  0%

Required Qualifications:

Degree required: Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, or related technical field.

Amount and type of experience required: 4 years of experience in the job offered or in a related position involving software engineering experience.

Specific skills required:

•              4 years of hands-on experience in Hadoop;

•              4 years of experience with MongoDB;

•              3 years of experience with Python or Unix/Shell scripting or Spark;

•              3 years of experience with Autosys;

•              2 years of experience with Dremio;

•              2 years of experience in setting up monitoring dashboards through Grafana or Prometheus;

•              1 year of experience with Kubernetes; and

•              1 year of experience with Azure or GCP.

Posting End Date:

4 Nov 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. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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