Distinguished Engineer (Software)

Distinguished Engineer (Software)

At Capital One, we believe in the values of Excellence and Doing the Right Thing. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial  products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale.

Distinguished Engineers are:

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices

• Visionaries, collaborating on Capital One’s toughest issues, to deliver on business needs that directly impact the lives of our customers and associates

• Role models and mentors, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Evangelists, both internally and externally, helping to elevate the Distinguished Engineering community and establish themselves as a go-to resource on given technologies and technology-enabled capabilities

• Leaders who gain the trust and confidence of those around them, from hands on engineers to executives

 

Whether a member of our engineering or architecture teams, Distinguished Engineers are individual contributors expected to solve problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative delivery environment. In order to meet these demands, candidates should be influential engineering leaders with deep technology expertise, and a collaborative style that brings others into the decision-making process. Distinguished Engineers will significantly impact the Tech agenda within their organization and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions across organizational boundaries.

We are seeking a Distinguished engineer to join the Finance Technology organization at Capital One. Finance Technology is positioning the Finance organization as a strategic enabler at Capital One. We engineer outcomes that transform how finance gets done through technology innovation and cutting edge products and services. The Distinguished engineer will lead architectural convergence between enterprise finance applications that serve our core finance functions such as accounting, tax, treasury and FP&A. Working alongside software and data engineering teams they will drive the design and development of applications that analyze, process and move massive amounts of financial data between systems including the General Ledger.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an overall architecture for the domain, in alignment with divisional and enterprise guidelines

• Look broadly across the domain to ensure consistency in architecture across the domain

• Collaborate with other domain architects and the divisional architecture team to ensure consistency across multiple domains

• Identify opportunities for application reuse and consolidation, both within your domain and by providing or consuming capabilities from other domains or lines of business

• Represent and advocate on behalf of your domain to the larger architecture community, particularly the Divisional Chief Architect and peers in the architecture center of practice

• Guide the domain architecture team in problem solving activities, ensuring that all voices are heard and understood while driving to timely, realistic solutions

• Ensure architecture decisions are clearly documented, communicated, and maintained for all initiatives within the domain 

• Promote a culture of engineering excellence and being well-managed, using opportunities to reuse and innersource solutions where possible

• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the domain

• Lead the way in keeping both the technology and the technologists in the domain up-to-date with modern architecture practices

• Protect against missed opportunities by providing or soliciting diverse points of view on how to solve our problems

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years of experience with application architecture and design patterns

• At least 5 years of experience with architectural patterns (SOA), building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

• 10+ years