Senior Cloud Architect & AI-Driven Engineer

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Distinguished Engineer to drive the technical vision and architecture across cloud-native platforms and AI-enabled development initiatives. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and deliver scalable, high-performance solutions that impact the enterprise.

You will lead by example, sharing knowledge through code samples and blogs while influencing multiple domains and platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 7+ years in software engineering.
• 7+ years of experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture.
• 8+ years of experience with public or private cloud technologies.
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity.

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.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

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

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Job description

Capital One seeks a Distinguished Engineer to drive the technical vision and architecture across cloud-native platforms and AI-enabled development initiatives. You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and deliver scalable, high-performance solutions that impact the enterprise.

You will lead by example, sharing knowledge through code samples and blogs while influencing multiple domains and platforms.