Director of Software Engineering — Cloud Platform Leadership

Capital One Group; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead, mentor, and build high-performing engineering teams delivering customer-centric, scalable solutions. The role requires strong cloud expertise, hands-on technology engagement, and clear strategic vision.

You will manage AWS-based infrastructure, drive architecture across full-stack tooling, and collaborate with product leaders to craft roadmaps while championing best practices and talent development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master’s may be preferred depending on profile.
• Minimum 9 years software development experience; 7+ years in people management.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud and modern software architectures.
• Ability to drive strategy, stakeholder alignment and roadmap execution.

Responsibilities

• Influence executive stakeholders and lead multiple engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and guide professional development within the teams.
• Define strategy, roadmap and destination architecture with product leaders.
• Manage a portfolio of platforms and projects to deliver scalable applications.
• Promote agile best practices and foster innovation across teams.

Skills

People management

Software engineering leadership

Agile practices

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Java

/Python

New Relic

Splunk

Datadog

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

Capital One seeks a Director of Software Engineering to lead, mentor, and build high-performing engineering teams delivering customer-centric, scalable solutions. The role requires strong cloud expertise, hands-on technology engagement, and clear strategic vision.

You will manage AWS-based infrastructure, drive architecture across full-stack tooling, and collaborate with product leaders to craft roadmaps while championing best practices and talent development.