Systems Operations Manager Data Platforms -Teradata & Hadoop

Systems Operations Manager – Data Platforms (Teradata & Hadoop)

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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: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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