Principal Cloud Architect & AI Platform Leader

Capital One National Association; Richmond, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction across cloud-based platforms and AI-augmented development. The role focuses on scalable architectures, high-impact projects, and mentoring engineers and product teams.

Candidates should exhibit deep expertise in cloud environments and modern software practices. You will drive innovation, collaborate with ML, product, and platform teams, and promote engineering excellence while recruiting top talent to grow Capital One

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required.
• 7+ years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• 7+ years of cloud computing experience (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• 10+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture preferred.
• 8+ years of end-to-end system development experience.
• 8+ years of experience with cloud technologies.
• Experience with interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an expert on non-functional system characteristics such as performance and scalability.
• Mentor and coach engineering and product teams.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction across cloud-based platforms and AI-augmented development. The role focuses on scalable architectures, high-impact projects, and mentoring engineers and product teams.

Candidates should exhibit deep expertise in cloud environments and modern software practices. You will drive innovation, collaborate with ML, product, and platform teams, and promote engineering excellence while recruiting top talent to grow Capital One