Senior Director, Software Engineering

Senior Director, Software Engineering

As a Capital One Senior 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 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, Hadoop, Chef, Maven, iOS, Android, and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure to name a few.

You will:

• Systems Thinking and Problem Solving: Ability to apply a deep understanding of complex, distributed systems to proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve cross-organizational technical challenges and systemic reliability gaps.

• Operational Excellence: Overseeing all aspects of operations, focusing on system stability, performance, and availability. This includes setting and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and managing incident response processes.

• Engineering and Architecture: Guiding the development lifecycle (SDLC) and software delivery, and ensuring adherence to best practices to build highly reliable, scalable, and resilient systems. This also involves promoting the adoption of automated deployment workflows and working across large-scale platforms and products, with a focus on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• People and Organization Management: Serving as a People Leader responsible for hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and blameless post-mortems. Providing efficient allocation of resources in alignment with top priorities. 

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborating with other engineering, product, and business leaders to align reliability initiatives with overall organizational goals and manage technical risk.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 9 years’ experience in software development

• At least 7 years’ experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 13+ years’ of experience in software development

• 8+ 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: $314,800 - $359,300 for Sr. Dir, Software Engineering

 

Plano, TX: $286,200 - $326,700 for Sr. Dir, 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 compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicab