Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Software Engineering

Capital One (Europe) plc; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Bonus schemes

Holidays 25 days

Private medical insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Capital One (Europe) plc in Nottingham is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner for Software Engineering. This senior, full‑lifecycle role partners with Engineering leaders to shape growth and secure top software engineering talent.

You will build pipelines, influence hiring models and compensation, and drive Capital One’s presence in the Nottingham tech scene, including hosting user groups and conferences.

Qualifications

• Deep Domain Expertise: Proven track record as a full-lifecycle recruiter with a deep, nuanced understanding of the Midlands software engineering landscape
• Strategic & Consultative Approach: Ability to move beyond tactical recruiting to think strategically about talent challenges, advise senior stakeholders, and shape organizational hiring strategy
• Community Building: Experience in leveraging community involvement to build an authentic employment brand and generate pipelines
• Exceptional Stakeholder Management: Highly effective communication and relationship-building skills to partner with busy hiring managers and provide a world‑class experience to candidates

Responsibilities

• Strategic Talent Acquisition: Develop and execute long-term sourcing and attraction strategies to build pipelines of software engineering talent
• Engineering Leadership Partnership: Advise engineering leaders on hiring models, compensation strategy and talent quality
• Data-Driven Influence: Use market insights to inform decisions on benchmarking, search strategy, and pipeline investment
• Culture & Brand Activation: Lead our presence in the Nottingham tech community, hosting engineering user groups and participating in conferences
• World‑Class Candidate Experience: Create high-touch experiences connecting top talent to our mission and technical challenges
• Recruiting Innovation: Stay ahead of emerging sourcing techniques and interview innovations in UK engineering hiring

Job description

Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Job Title: Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Software Engineering

Location: Nottingham - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 3 days in-office (Tuesday-Thursday) and 2 days remote.

Our Mission

We're on a mission to be a force for good in lending. Throughout our almost 30-year history, we've consistently been recognised as a great place to work; in 2026, Capital One was officially ranked 9th in the UK's Best Workplaces™ list. Hear from our team about what it's like working at Capital One UK.

About this role

Are you a highly strategic, Senior Software Engineering recruiter ready to directly influence the growth of a leading financial technology organization?

This is a high-impact, full-lifecycle role where you will partner directly with Engineering leaders to solve complex talent challenges, amplify our brand, and secure top software engineering talent.

What You'll Drive

This position goes beyond filling roles; you will be the market expert and the strategic engine behind our growth.

• Strategic Talent Acquisition: Develop and execute innovative, long-term sourcing and attraction strategies to build robust pipelines of high‑calibre software engineering talent, solving for both immediate demand and future organizational needs.


• Engineering Leadership Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders, leveraging your deep market knowledge of the software engineering market to influence hiring models, compensation strategy, and the long-term talent quality bar.


• Data-Driven Influence: Utilize market insights and recruiting data to inform and influence organizational decisions related to talent benchmarking, search strategy, and pipeline investment.


• Culture & Brand Activation: Lead our presence in the Nottingham tech community. You will own the strategy for hosting engineering user groups at our Nottingham office and spearhead our impactful presence at major industry conferences.


• World‑Class Candidate Experience: Create inspiring, high-touch experiences for every engineering candidate, focusing on powerful storytelling that connects top talent directly to our mission and technical challenges.


• Recruiting Innovation: Stay ahead of the curve on emerging sourcing techniques, interview innovations, and the evolving dynamics of the wider UK engineering market to ensure we maintain a competitive edge.

What You’ll Bring

• Deep Domain Expertise: Proven track record as a full-lifecycle recruiter with a deep, nuanced understanding of the Midlands software engineering landscape


• Strategic & Consultative Approach: Ability to move beyond tactical recruiting to think strategically about talent challenges, advise senior stakeholders, and shape organizational hiring strategy.


• Community Building: Experience in leveraging community involvement (meetups, conferences, thought leadership) to build an authentic employment brand and generate pipelines.


• Exceptional Stakeholder Management: Highly effective communication and relationship-building skills to partner with busy hiring managers and provide a world‑class experience to candidates.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.

We embrace a hybrid approach to work. You'll spend three days a week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday), with Monday and Friday being dedicated work-from-home days.

Our offices are designed to inspire and support you. At our Nottingham head office, you'll find an on‑site gym, restaurant and dedicated Learning Loft.

What’s in it for you

We invest in the growth of our people alongside our business. You will have extensive opportunities to learn and develop your career, including access to up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications.

In addition to career development, our comprehensive benefits package is designed to grow with you, ensuring your wellbeing is prioritised at every stage of your career:

• Wealth & Future: Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes


• Holidays: Start with 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure. Need more? You have the option to buy 5 additional days.


• Health: Access premium care through our private medical insurance.


• Family Support: We champion your milestones with enhanced parental leave.

A full list of our benefits is available here.

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it's about what you do, not just what you say. That's why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We value diversity, inclusion and belonging at our core. We empower our associates to do great work by creating an inclusive culture—one that values diverse perspectives, fosters collaboration and encourages innovative ideas—and a place where associates of all backgrounds can thrive by bringing their most authentic selves to work. We call this our Culture of Belonging, and it rests at the heart of our business.

Our associate-led Business Resource Groups were created to help support our diverse population and include over 10 groups across our offices. Because each Business Resource Group is as unique as the population it serves, they offer a range of activities, networking opportunities, special events and learning programs to associates.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

Who We Are

At Capital One, we're building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder‑led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.

We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Guided by our shared values, we thrive in an environment where collaboration and openness are valued. We believe that innovation is powered by perspective and that teamwork and respect for each other lead to superior results. We elevate each other and obsess about doing the right thing. Our associates serve with humility and a deep respect for their responsibility in helping our customers achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Together, we are on a quest to change banking for good.