Senior Specialty Software Engineer - Capital Markets Reference Data

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Specialty Software Engineer to join our Corporate and Investment Banking Technology team. This role focuses on developing and enhancing our Reference Data Platform, a critical application supporting Capital Markets business & trading. You will design and build high-performance components for ingesting, mastering, and distributing financial instruments reference data—requiring strong hands-on expertise in Java, distributed systems, and scalable data processing. The ideal candidate will bring solid experience in back-end development, a willingness to leverage agentic AI tools for accelerated delivery, and a commitment to operational excellence, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in and contribute to complex initiatives across Reference Data Platform domains, delivering scalable and resilient solutions.

• Design, code, test, debug, and document applications using Agile development practices and modern Java frameworks.

• Leverage agentic AI tools to accelerate development and maintain high code quality.

• Support data quality practices including golden-source determination, cross-vendor reconciliation, and data lineage tracking.

• Lead or participate in complex initiatives on selected domains.

• Assure quality, security and compliance for supported systems and applications.

• Serve as a technical resource in finding software solutions.

• Review and evaluate user needs and determine requirements.

• Provide technical support, advice, and consultation with the issues relating to supported applications.

• Create test data and conduct interfaces and unit tests.

• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices.

• Understand and participate to ensure compliance and risk management requirements for supported area are met and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives.

• Conduct research and resolve problems in relation to processes and recommend solutions and process improvements.

• Assist other individuals in advanced software development.

• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• 4+ years of Java development experience with knowledge of memory management, concurrency, and I/O

• 2+ years of Java 17+, including modern features like Streams API, records, and enhanced concurrency

• 2+ years of implementing microservices using Spring ecosystem (Boot, Batch, and/or Data)

• 2+ years of SQL experience including query optimization

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Python (pandas, PySpark, or similar) for data transformation or enrichment workflows

• Experience building cloud-ready solutions with Azure, GCP, or OpenShift

• Experience developing data APIs exposed via API gateways

• Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, Solace, or similar

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Harness, GitHub Actions, or similar) and automated testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)

• Demonstrated knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering techniques, and AI-assisted development workflows)

• Domain exposure to Financial Instrument Reference Data or market data vendors

• Experience with distributed caching technologies (Apache Ignite, Redis, Coherence)

• Front-end development experience with React.

• Well-versed in Agile development strategies and ceremonies, Test Driven Development & DevOps practices

• Strong foundation in object-oriented analysis and design, algorithms, and data structures

• Excellent analytical and communication skills

Job Expectations:

• Develop and deliver software for Reference Data platform components as a hands-on individual contributor

• Collaborate with Product Owners and business users to translate requirements into functional and technical specifications

• Analyze and refactor legacy code to align with a scalable microservice architecture.

• Write high-quality, performant Java code applying object-oriented principles and proven design patterns

• Conduct thorough unit and functional testing; document all development activities per team standards

• Ensure quality, maintainability, and extensibility of supported systems and risk applications

• Build resilient applications requiring near zero production support

• Ramp quickly on new business domains within Capital Markets technology

• Leverage agentic AI tools to accelerate delivery and maintain high code quality

• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes and propose solutions using AI technologies

Location:

• 300 S Brevard St., Charlotte, NC 28202

Posting End Date: 

29 Apr 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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