Infrastructure Engineering Manager (Mainframe Database)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026. Wells Fargo scores A on the Alion truth index.
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager (Mainframe Database) to lead teams responsible for Db2 and IMS database engineering, infrastructure, administration, and production support.
In this role, you will:
- Manage and develop Infrastructure Engineers in roles with low to moderate complexity and risk
- Lead teams responsible for Db2 and IMS database engineering, infrastructure, administration, and production support
- Establish team priorities, clarify accountability, develop technical capabilities, and maintain appropriate coverage for production support
- Provide technical direction and ensure adherence to established database engineering and operational standards
- Oversee the design, installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and lifecycle management of database infrastructure
- Maintain platform availability and reliability while reducing the frequency, duration, and business impact of database service disruptions
- Provide oversight for 24x7 production and non-production support, including incident response, problem management, and root-cause remediation
- Review high-impact outages and ensure appropriate corrective and preventive actions are implemented
- Ensure database environments meet enterprise requirements for security, change management, audit readiness, business continuity, and disaster recovery
- Oversee monitoring, alerting, capacity management, configuration management, and operational health reporting
- Drive automation and continuous improvement across maintenance, monitoring, change execution, evidence collection, and other repeatable operational processes
- Evaluate technology and vendor solutions that improve reliability, security, performance, supportability, and cost efficiency
- Partner with application, infrastructure, cyber security, audit, resiliency, and vendor teams to deliver platform objectives
- Manage the allocation of people and financial resources for Infrastructure Engineering
- Mentor and develop team members and participate in recruiting and hiring talent.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 3+ years of Leadership experience.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience leading or supporting enterprise Mainframe database environments
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with IBM Db2 for z/OS
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with IBM IMS
- Experience with z/OS and Mainframe infrastructure environments
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical database platforms
- Experience with database installation, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, performance tuning, and capacity management
- Experience with production incident management, problem management, and root-cause analysis
- Experience supporting technology risk, security, audit, compliance, business continuity, and disaster recovery requirements
- Experience driving automation and operational improvements within Mainframe database environments
- Experience managing vendor relationships and technology lifecycle or product strategy
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
Job Expectations:
- Provide leadership and oversight for enterprise Db2 and IMS Mainframe database services
- Support environments requiring 24x7 production coverage and timely incident response
- Maintain database platform stability, performance, security, resiliency, and software currency
- Ensure adherence to applicable technology risk, security, change-management, and operational requirements
- Maintain business continuity and disaster recovery readiness, including testing and remediation of identified issues
- Build effective partnerships across application development, infrastructure, cyber security, audit, resiliency, and vendor teams
- Drive modernization, automation, and continuous improvement across Mainframe database operations
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. $119,000.00 - $206,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- 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
Posting End Date:
11 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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