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Director, Software Engineering

Capital One
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Aug 2025
💰 $273,800/yr($239,900/yr$273,800/yr)

About the role

Director, Software Engineering

Capital One is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to work in our Card Data Engineering and Analytics organization. This individual will be accountable to drive a cohesive datamart/aggregation strategy across our org  in collaboration with multiple enterprise partners. This individual was also lead creation of modern scalable innovative solutions that simplify our analysts lives and create a self-serve experience. This role will build teams to deliver highly performant and scalable data products and platforms to drive consumption of data from our enterprise data ecosystem, while driving data engineering best practices. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer-oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering next generation software and data products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for delivering customer value through automation, machine learning and predictive analytics.

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 DevOps 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

  • Curious: Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working

  • 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 5 years of people management experience

  • At least 7 year of software engineering or data engineering experience

  • At least 3 years of experience with cloud-based data platforms

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering, real-time system design, and distributed systems management

  • 3+  years of experience with Data Lake Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, and Data Analytics tools

  • 3+ years of experience with AWS

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.

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

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