Senior Cloud Architect & Tech Visionary (Remote)

Information Technology Senior Management Forum; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 314,800 - 359,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Competitive benefits

Mentorship opportunities

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer (Remote-Eligible) to lead with a bold technical vision and drive practical, scalable solutions across cloud-native architectures.

You will mentor engineers, influence across teams, and contribute to reusable knowledge through code samples, blogs, and reviews. This role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and delivering high-impact outcomes in a large enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 9 years of experience in general software.
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.

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 technologies

Networking

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer (Remote-Eligible) to lead with a bold technical vision and drive practical, scalable solutions across cloud-native architectures.

You will mentor engineers, influence across teams, and contribute to reusable knowledge through code samples, blogs, and reviews. This role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and delivering high-impact outcomes in a large enterprise setting.