Distinguished Engineer , Bank Tech; Remote- Eligible

Position: Distinguished Engineer , Bank Tech (Remote- Eligible)
Location: New York

Distinguished Engineer , Bank Tech (Remote
- Eligible)

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

In this role, you will work with our Platform Engineering organization to provide AI-enabled tools for pipeline optimization and deterministic transformation capabilities that dramatically improve developer workflow, quality, and reliability.

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.

About the Team:

The Capital One Acquisitions Technology organization owns the customer journey through customer account opening, decisioning, and onboarding for our Retail and Small Business banks.

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy for a large group of engineers and will be the lead architect overseeing a critical part of the company's continued growth. You'll help move us toward a more dynamically-driven application flow, championing server-driven UI and backend-for-frontend (BFF) patterns to ensure we can pivot at the speed of the market. You'll ensure we're building resilient, performant, and maintainable applications so we can deliver what our customers expect from us.

And you'll guide our continued integration of AI into our entire software development lifecycle.

What you'll do:

• Architectural Evolution:
  Drive the transition to a dynamically-driven architecture, utilizing SDUI and BFF patterns to decouple our front-end experiences from backend complexity.
• Convergence Strategy:
  Act as the primary technical arbiter for our journey from line of business-specific tech stacks to determine where uniqueness provides value and where it creates technical debt.
• AI-Augmented SDLC:
  Lead the charge in identifying and implementing AI-driven efficiencies across our software development lifecycle (SDLC) to accelerate delivery and improve code resilience.
• Technical Execution:
  Guide the technical execution of a diverse project portfolio, collaborating with engineers specializing in everything ranging from distributed microservices to web and mobile applications to fraud and decisioning models.
• Strategic Influence:
  Work cross-functionally with product and program management disciplines, and stakeholder and partners across Capital One to help optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions
• Promoting Learning:
  Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and leading system design and code review sessions.
• Building our Brand:
  Help elevate the Capital One Distinguished Engineering community and establish yourself as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities.
• Mentoring:
  Lead the way in creating next-generation talent, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting external talent to bolster the Capital One tech talent pool.

Responsibilities:

• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of modern technologies, sharing consumer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in
• Strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where others' ideas can be heard and championed; leverage expertise to grow skills in the broader Capital One team
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, using opportunities to reuse and inner source solutions where possible
• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the…