Senior Cloud Payments Architect & Tech Leader

Capital One; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 245,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join the Global Payment Network Technology group. You will lead technically across payments in the cloud, collaborating with developers, ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, thought leadership, and mentoring the next generation of Capital One Tech talent. You will evangelize architecture, drive high-performance designs, and leverage interactive AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 5 years designing distributed systems.
• At least 5 years of experience with public cloud technologies.
• Preferred: 10+ years in software engineering and systems design.
• Experience with payments, money movement, and related standards (PCI-DSS).
• Experience leveraging interactive AI tooling to accelerate productivity.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain and portfolio of applications, across engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership.
• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions that deliver functional requirements with high performance and reliability.
• Leverage agentic AI to accelerate the delivery of modernized systems that power the future of our payment network.
• Drive quality of technical design and implementation, proactively identifying and removing technical debt from systems and friction from customer experiences.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, including performance, reliability, scalability and operability.
• Constantly learn and practice new technical skills, injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community.
• Handle multiple concurrent engagements, nimbly adapting focus to maximize impact.
• Act as a role model and mentor across the tech community, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise and skills of our engineering & product community.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems design

Public cloud technologies

Payments domain

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Swift

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join the Global Payment Network Technology group. You will lead technically across payments in the cloud, collaborating with developers, ML experts, product managers, and people leaders to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, thought leadership, and mentoring the next generation of Capital One Tech talent. You will evangelize architecture, drive high-performance designs, and leverage interactive AI