Director, Software Engineering (Connectivity Security)

Director, Software Engineering (Connectivity Security)

As a Capital One Director of Software Engineering, you'll work on everything from customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly-available RESTful microservices, to back-end Java based systems and Machine learning models using the hottest techniques in Big Data. You'll bring solid experience in emerging and traditional technologies such as: node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS, React, Python, REST, JSON, XML, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL databases, relational databases, Spark, Artifactory, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

 

The Connectivity Security team builds and runs sustainable platforms that ensure the safe and secure transfer of data throughout the Capital One ecosystem. Our customers include our engineering teams, application owners, cyber operations teams, associates, and Capital One customers.

 

As part of our mission to elevate and simplify user experiences and ensure that our platforms are easily consumable by our customers, we are hiring for a Director to lead the Customer Enablement function within Connectivity Security. The leader will own the existing processes, tactical implementation, and  the strategic vision.

 

This Director will need to bring a software-engineering mindset in order to evolve the existing platforms in an operationally efficient and technologically innovative manner, ensuring that our platforms anticipate and keep pace with Capital One’s ongoing technology transformation.

 

You will:

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

• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.

• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios

• Continuously improve software engineering practices

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

• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions

• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community

• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity

• Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams

• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments

• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 7 years’ experience in software development

• At least 5 years’ experience in people management

 

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 10+ years’ of experience in software development

• 5+ years’ of experience in Agile practices

 

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Director, Software Engineering

 

Plano, TX: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Software Engineering

 

Richmond, VA: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Software Engineering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensati