Principal AI & Cloud Architect

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Distinguished Engineer to join Capital One Tech, shaping the future of cloud-based banking. You will work with engineers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to define practical, reusable solutions and drive innovation across platforms.

In this hands-on role you will mentor teams, architect real-time risk tools, and apply AI/ML to security and analytics. You’ll dive deep into code, review designs, and help recruit and grow technical talent while delivering impact

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering and architecture across large-scale systems.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data architectures.
• Strong background in AI/ML concepts applied to engineering challenges.
• Experience with SRE principles and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for embedding AI and automated code transformation into the developer lifecycle.
• 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.
• Ensure Code is of the highest quality & standard while being an active contributor and reviewer on critical repos of the application.
• Develop full stack applications with a product engineering mindset, spanning frontend and backend ecosystems that balance simplicity with flexibility.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

AI/ML concepts

Site Reliability Engineering

Programming languages: Java, Python,Go

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

10+ years of professional software engineering

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

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Job description

Capital One seeks a Distinguished Engineer to join Capital One Tech, shaping the future of cloud-based banking. You will work with engineers, ML experts, product managers and people leaders to define practical, reusable solutions and drive innovation across platforms.

In this hands-on role you will mentor teams, architect real-time risk tools, and apply AI/ML to security and analytics. You’ll dive deep into code, review designs, and help recruit and grow technical talent while delivering impact