Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering at Capital One summary:

The Director of Software Engineering at Capital One leads multiple software and data engineering teams to build scalable, resilient risk management products using cutting-edge technologies including microservices, Java, machine learning, and Big Data. This leadership role involves setting vision, fostering engineering culture, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring staff to drive innovative solutions and operational excellence in an Agile environment. The position requires strong technical expertise, strategic thinking, and experience in both emerging and traditional technologies within financial risk technology.

Director, Software Engineering

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on implementing some of the technology advanced products using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems and Machine learning models using the latest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in both emerging and traditional technologies.

In Risk Tech, we provide the foundation for Capital One to thrive in an uncertain world. Our engaged, empowered, and intelligent people produce outstanding products, working toward the common goal of transforming risk management with technology. We build data-driven tools that use machine learning to prevent risks & automatically detect issues before they impact our business, our customers, or our communities.

In this role at Risk Tech, you will work with our internal Audit team to provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to help build best-in-class products for capital one. You will be a thought leader in this space to ensure we are building a world class product that is scalable, resilient, multi-tenant and can support a variety of use cases.

You will be responsible to lead the teams with setting up the right vision, best in the industry engineering culture and developer experience. You will also closely partner with product partners and other stakeholders to define the strategy that will position Audit products to be the best in class product for enterprise users. Additionally, you will provide mentorship and strategic guidance to your direct reports helping them grow in their career at Capital One.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Our Directors Are

• Technologists:
  Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions - will have a Dev Ops mindset

• Effective Communicators:
  Excellent listener; proven collaborator with senior leaders, peers and staff

• Partnership Attitude:
  Have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions

• Passionate:
  Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization

• Bold:
  History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change

• Achievers:
  Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals

You Will

• Lead, manage, and grow multiple teams of product focused software & data engineers

• Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open-source products across all platforms

• Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and data platforms

• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning

• Partner with architects, product owners, data professionals, and software & data engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement and support technical solutions across full-stack development tools and technologies

• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments and provide operational support for the applications

• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years’ experience in software development

• At least 5 years’…