Senior Director, Full-Stack Engineering

Capital One; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple full-stack engineering teams and define engineering strategy in the cloud, partnering with product managers, designers and executives to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions.

You will mentor managers and engineers, drive workforce strategy, recruit top talent, and ensure architectural health and resilience across enterprise platforms in AWS and related cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related quantitative field required.
• At least 7 years of people management experience.
• At least 9 years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• At least 9 years of cloud computing and data architecture experience.

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 with scalable technology capabilities.
• Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning, skill development, and equitable opportunity across engineering teams.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios and develop market-driven application capabilities and customer experiences.
• Continuously improve software engineering practices.
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions.

Skills

People management

Cloud computing

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Mentoring

Agile

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Go

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

C#

Scala

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple full-stack engineering teams and define engineering strategy in the cloud, partnering with product managers, designers and executives to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions.

You will mentor managers and engineers, drive workforce strategy, recruit top talent, and ensure architectural health and resilience across enterprise platforms in AWS and related cloud environments.