Customer Solutions Architect - Capital One Software - (Remote)

Customer Solutions Architect - Capital One Software - (Remote)

Capital One has been a pioneer through our tech journey as the first large bank to go all in on the public cloud, while operating in a complex and highly regulated business environment. We have built out a large engineering organization, moved to the cloud, re-architected our applications and data platforms, and embraced machine learning at scale. Our AI/ML capabilities are now at the forefront of what’s possible in banking. (e.g., Capital One Eno).

Our teams have built and battle tested new capabilities to meet those needs. We’ve open sourced several of the software tools we built (e.g., Cloud Custodian, Hygieia) and forged new partnerships with other digital leaders (e.g., Microsoft, MSFT).

Through this journey, we've developed a suite of internal solutions uniquely designed to meet the challenges of a digital-first, cloud-first business at scale. We also recognize that many other businesses are facing similar data management needs as they accelerate their cloud and data journeys, and are exploring how best to bring some of the tools to market as enterprise B2B software solutions.

Role Overview

The Capital One Software team is seeking a customer-centric, energetic, and highly-motivated individual to join our team. You are entrepreneurial by nature, completely comfortable working with diverse cross-functional teams, and talented at helping customers align technical and business outcomes. We look for people who obsess over removing friction from the overall customer experience and thrive in an entrepreneurial environment driven by bold ideas, collaboration and creativity.

Specifically, we are looking for experienced and collaborative technical pre-sales individuals to partner with technically skilled customers, internal Product and Engineering teams as well as other cross-functional verticals. In this role, you will need to be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer and solutions-focused skills of your team. We are looking for individuals who love learning and introducing new technology in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. We need innovative individuals who can look beyond the technology and consider the value our technology creates for our customers, and can help change how our technology is viewed to enable outcomes. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a Customer Solutions Architect, technical pre-sales, or a similar role. You will have an ability to grow your leadership skills as well as diving deep into various hands-on solutions while developing new skills, so you can make strong contributions in architecture transformation discussions. Customer Solution Architects must be able to identify customer pain points and desired outcomes and translate them into Capital One Software solutions. You are able to help customers align technical and business outcomes and eliminate ambiguity in a growing software business. Seeking individuals with bold ideas, entrepreneurial in nature and those who enjoy building a startup. We require individuals who can implement internal and external solutions at scale with little to no managerial oversight.

Key Areas of Focus for Customer Solutions Architects:

• Trusted Advisor: We are the front line for our customer’s tech, product, and cyber needs as well as for solutioning product specific improvements.

• Customer Ambassador: We represent the voice of the customer and the customer needs in internal discussions and working groups.

• Demonstrate Value: We focus on identifying the best solutions that bring value to our customers.

• Thought Leadership: We use research and customer solutioning experiences to build and share thought leadership both internally and externally.

• Subject Matter Experts: We focus on gaining deep understanding of our products and deep subject matter expertise across technology domains in order to best advise our customers, solve complex problems and identify areas of improvement for our products.

• Pre-Sales & Post-Sales: We are focused on serving our customers predominantly in the Pre-Sales stages, as we determine how to best implement our products for their needs and also solve for any unique requests. We also focus on the Post-Sales stages, for those instances where customers will require solutions that were not part of their original product deployment.

• Solution Oriented: We focus on finding solutions to address every customer problem and need using every tool, skillset and creativity at our disposal.