Senior Director, Cloud-Scale Software Engineering (Remote)

Capital One; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple high‑performing full‑stack teams and to drive architectural direction across enterprise platforms. You will partner with product managers, designers and executives to translate business goals into scalable cloud solutions.

You will mentor managers and engineers, foster a culture of learning, and steer workforce strategy while delivering customer‑centric, compliant, and resilient software at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 7 years of people management experience.
• At least 9 years in software engineering and solution architecture.
• At least 9 years in enterprise architecture and design patterns.
• At least 9 years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• At least 9 years in data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams of product focused software engineers.
• Shape long‑term technical strategy and architecture standards for enterprise platforms.
• Partner with senior leaders to align roadmaps with scalable tech capabilities.
• Drive talent strategy, succession planning, and skill development.
• Mentor engineers on technical and career growth.
• Collaborate with product managers to implement market‑driven features.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Cloud deployment (AWS)

Architectural design

Agile

Staff mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools (agentic AI)

Full-stack engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

SQL

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple high‑performing full‑stack teams and to drive architectural direction across enterprise platforms. You will partner with product managers, designers and executives to translate business goals into scalable cloud solutions.

You will mentor managers and engineers, foster a culture of learning, and steer workforce strategy while delivering customer‑centric, compliant, and resilient software at scale.