Senior Director, Cloud & AI Software Engineering

Capital One; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 286,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple high‑performing teams across full‑stack platforms in a cloud‑first environment. You will partner with product, design, analytics and executives to translate business goals into scalable technology platforms and drive engineering strategy with a strong focus on resilience and governance.

You will mentor managers and engineers, advance workforce strategy, and recruit top talent while fostering inclusive engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• At least 7 years of people management experience.
• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
• At least 9 years of experience in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• At least 9 years of experience in cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• At least 9 years of experience in Data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers.
• Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.
• Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to align product roadmaps.
• Drive talent strategy with succession planning and skills development.
• Mentor engineers on professional and technical growth.
• Collaborate with product managers to define market-driven capabilities.
• Improve software engineering practices.
• Lead cross-domain architectural reviews and coding standards.
• Lead deployment of applications into AWS environments.

Skills

People management

Software engineering leadership

Cloud engineering

Enterprise architecture

Distributed systems

AI tooling

Technical vision

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in CS or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple high‑performing teams across full‑stack platforms in a cloud‑first environment. You will partner with product, design, analytics and executives to translate business goals into scalable technology platforms and drive engineering strategy with a strong focus on resilience and governance.

You will mentor managers and engineers, advance workforce strategy, and recruit top talent while fostering inclusive engineering