Senior Director, Software Engineering (Bank Tech)

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Director, Software Engineering (Bank Tech)

Do you want to work for a tech company that writes its own code, develops its own software, and builds its own products? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with open source technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment? We experiment and innovate leveraging the latest technologies, engineer breakthrough customer experiences, and bring simplicity and humanity to banking. We make a difference for 65 million customers. At Capital One, you’ll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We want you to be curious and ask “what if?”

 

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and grow an extremely talented software engineering team to build automation and tooling that drives Governance, Compliance & Developer Experience within the Bank. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure we invest in the right solutions on behalf of our engineering teams and customers. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering resilient systems, a keen eye towards managing risk, and a passion for tackling complex software problems in a horizontal capacity on behalf of millions of customers. 

 

Background:

• Technologist: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions.

• Effective Communication: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with superiors, 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.

• Achiever: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals.

• Leadership: the ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solutions

 

You will:

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams software engineers in building services and tools that automate governance and compliance requirements, and lead improving the developer experience

• Work to modernize our existing tech stacks 

• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning.

• Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new applications

• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across the line of business and the enterprise

• Lead efforts to build new and modernize existing applications into AWS environments

• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards

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

• Create proof of concepts and see through projects through production

 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 9 years of experience in software development

• At least 7 years of experience in developing scalable web applications and architectural standards

• At least 7 years of experience in people management

• At least 3 years of experience with cloud technologies

 

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years experience with Amazon Web Services

• 3+ years of experience with horizontal platforms or related services and technologies

 

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

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