Distinguished Engineer - Marketing and Decisioning CardTech

Capital One National Association; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to drive innovation in cloud banking. This role involves collaborating with talented teams to define technical strategies and lead initiatives, ensuring excellence in engineering practices. You will serve as a trusted advisor, specializing in key technologies while mentoring the next generation of engineers. If you're passionate about shaping the future of banking and creating impactful solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a community that values diversity of thought and fosters a culture of engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software engineering or solution architecture.
• Expertise in Cloud computing and Enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision and decompose complex problems.
• Mentor and coach the technical expertise of the engineering community.

Skills

Software Engineering

Solution Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Computing

Data Processing

REST APIs

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Python

Java

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Distinguished Engineer - Marketing and Decisioning CardTech

As a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, you will be a part of a community of technical experts working to define the future of banking in the cloud.

You will work alongside our talented team of developers, machine learning experts, product managers and people leaders. Our Distinguished Engineers are leading experts in their domains, helping devise practical and reusable solutions to complex problems. You will drive innovation at multiple levels, helping optimize business outcomes while driving towards strong technology solutions.

At Capital One, we believe diversity of thought strengthens our ability to influence, collaborate and provide the most innovative solutions across organizational boundaries. You will promote a culture of engineering excellence, and strike the right balance between lending expertise and providing an inclusive environment where the ideas of others can be heard and championed. You will lead the way in creating next-generation talent for Capital One Tech, mentoring internal talent and actively recruiting to keep building our community.

Distinguished Engineers are expected to lead through technical contribution. You will operate as a trusted advisor for our key technologies, platforms and capability domains, creating clear and concise communications, code samples, blog posts and other material to share knowledge both inside and outside the organization. You will specialize in a particular subject area, but your input and impact will be sought and expected throughout the organization.

In this role, you will work with the Marketing & Decisioning Tech teams to help drive the vision and architectural direction for our platforms, playing a crucial role in leading tech initiatives and delivering complex solutions. As part of this, you will be collaborating with cross functional teams and other Distinguished Engineers to define the technical strategies of products and platforms.

If you are ready to provide thought leadership and build engineering excellence across Capital One's engineering teams, come join us in our mission to change banking for good.

Key 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 your time to maximize impact
• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 7 years of experience in Software engineering or solution architecture
• At least 7 years of experience in Enterprise architecture and design patterns
• At least 5 years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of professional experience in the full lifecycle of system development, from conception through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• 10+ years of software engineering experience using at least one of the following: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.
• 7+ years of experience in Data Lakes and Data warehousing
• 5+ years of experience in handling Realtime and Batch data processing (Python, Spark, Kafka, Delta libraries, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with AWS services (AWS Glue, Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with building REST APIs