Cloud & AI Strategy Architect

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 294,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Distinguished Engineer to lead engineering excellence across cloud-native platforms. You will articulate a bold technical vision, drive decomposition of complex problems into scalable solutions, and ensure high-quality design and implementation across multiple domains in a fast-moving environment.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to strategic direction, and remain hands-on with cutting-edge LLM, RAG, embeddings, and model governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of general software engineering and solution architecture.
• 5+ years shipping large-scale platforms in the cloud.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with LLM systems including RAG/embeddings, prompt tooling, and model governance.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics such as performance, scalability, and operability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing time to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community to strengthen technical expertise.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

LLM systems

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Cloud platforms

Model governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

RAG/embeddings

Prompt tooling

Cloud technologies

Job description

Capital One seeks a Distinguished Engineer to lead engineering excellence across cloud-native platforms. You will articulate a bold technical vision, drive decomposition of complex problems into scalable solutions, and ensure high-quality design and implementation across multiple domains in a fast-moving environment.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to strategic direction, and remain hands-on with cutting-edge LLM, RAG, embeddings, and model governance.