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Wells Fargo · 5 hours ago

Technology Director of Data Derived Security Services

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$215K/yr - $355K/yr

8+ years exp

Wells Fargo is a leading financial institution seeking a Technology Director of Data Derived Security Services. This senior role is responsible for engineering, automation, and AI enablement for data-derived services in the Counter Threat Operations Center, leading the development and deployment of technology ecosystems and strategies for operational efficiency.

BankingFinancial ServicesFinTechInsurancePayments

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect a multi-temperature lakehouse (Delta Lake v3.2 + Apache Iceberg 1.6) with neural schema inference using AutoEncoder-driven feature drift detection (VAE + KL divergence thresholds)

Ingest 1.8T events/day via Kafka Confluent Tiered Storage; Flink CEP; Photon-accelerated Spark 3.5 Structured Streaming with sub-75ms P99 latency

Deploy LLM-powered log normalization with FAISS-HNSW vector stores

Lead a red-team MLOps platform deploying 45+ production models via KServe v0.13 on EKS/GKE with NVIDIA A100/H100 MIG partitioning

Implement certified robustness using interval bound propagation (IBP) and CROWN-IBP for isolation forest and tabular GNN detectors

Operationalize Poisoning-Resistant Federated Learning (Secure Aggregation + Trimmed Mean) across 4 regional CTOC's, 3 Regional SOC's, and a dozen disparate data repositories using Flower + PySyft with differential privacy

Stay abreast of innovations in AI, data infrastructure, and cloud platforms to maintain the department's edge against a complex adversary

Deploy PPO + SAC agents trained in MITRE ATT&CK® Gym environments (Caldera + Atomic Red Team) to orchestrate multi-stage hunt sequences

Integrate LLM-augmented playbooks (fine-tuned Mistral Large 2) that generate SOAR runbooks in Cortex XSOAR DSL from natural language TTP descriptions

Reduce MTTD to ≤2 minutes for Tier-1 incidents via graph attention networks (GATv3) over Neo4j AuraDB correlating terabytes of data daily

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

Qualification

AI/ML LeadershipData EngineeringMLOps MasteryPythonData GovernanceETL ToolsProject ManagementProblem SolvingOrganizational SkillsTeam ManagementCommunication Skills

Required

8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

4+ years of management or leadership experience

8+ years in AI/ML, data engineering, data science with at least 4+ years in leadership roles leading AI, Fusion Center, or CTOC transformations in large financial institutions with track record of reducing MTTD and MTTR Kri's

Proven ability lead and manage teams in a matrixed environment, with a history of influence and persuasion over diverse technology teams

Preferred

Experience in a wide variety of information security disciplines

Must have MLOps Mastery, experience building GPU clusters >5,000 H100s, CI/CD for models, canary + shadow deployments, drift detection (PSI, K-S, MMD)

Hands-On Coding Experience; Expert in Python (PyTorch 2.4, JAX, TensorFlow 2.16), Rust (for Triton kernels), CUDA-X, GraphQL federated queries

Experience implementing Adversarial ML. IBP, randomized smoothing, TRADES training, and certified defenses in finance

Must be a master problem solver with the ability to be decisive while making data driven decisions

Must maintain exceptional skills in managing complex projects and coordinate cross functional teams to achieve common objectives

Maintain a solid grasp of data analytics to interpret business performance, identify areas for improvement, and translate the CISO's vision into day-to-day operational and strategic plans

Implement robust data governance frameworks, ensuring data privacy, lineage, and compliance with standards like NIST

Must have experience using ETL tools in day-to-day operations

Ph.D or Master's degree from an accredited college/university in Computer Science, Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or Cryptography; huge plus if thesis is in adversarial ML, casual inference, or graph presentation

Strong organizational skills

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Prior experience in managing and effectively influencing large matrixed teams in a hyper-regulated industry with validated experience succeeding with large projects

Desired Certifications: Google Professional ML Engineer; NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) Certified; Databricks GenAI Engineer

Benefits

Health benefits

401(k) Plan

Paid time off

Disability benefits

Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance

Parental leave

Critical caregiving leave

Discounts and savings

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Scholarships for dependent children

Adoption reimbursement

Company

Wells Fargo

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Wells Fargo & Company is a financial services firm that provides banking, insurance, investments, and mortgage services.

Founded in 1852

San Francisco, California, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.wellsfargo.com

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