Senior Director, Cloud-Native Software Engineering

Capital One; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 320,000 - 392,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple full‑stack teams and shape the engineering strategy for cloud‑driven banking platforms. You will partner with product, design, architects, and executives to deliver scalable, customer‑centric solutions with strong governance and security in mind.

You will mentor managers and engineers, drive workforce strategy, recruit top talent, and own the technical health, delivery velocity and resilience of your domain while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field.
• At least 9 years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• At least 9 years in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• At least 9 years of cloud computing experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• At least 9 years of Data architecture experience.
• 7+ years of mentoring senior engineers and leading teams.
• 3+ years of cross-domain architectural reviews and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and grow multiple software engineer teams.
• Shape long-term technical strategy and architecture standards.
• Partner with senior leaders to align roadmaps with scalable tech capabilities.
• Drive talent strategy including succession planning and skills development.
• Mentor engineers on professional and technical growth.
• Deploy and manage applications across AWS environments.
• Ensure engineering practices, velocity, resilience and availability.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud computing

Data architecture

Distributed systems

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Distributed HPC systems

ML systems

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple full‑stack teams and shape the engineering strategy for cloud‑driven banking platforms. You will partner with product, design, architects, and executives to deliver scalable, customer‑centric solutions with strong governance and security in mind.

You will mentor managers and engineers, drive workforce strategy, recruit top talent, and own the technical health, delivery velocity and resilience of your domain while