Senior Director, Full-Stack Engineering – Dev Experience

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 286,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, shape long-term technical strategy, and partner with product managers, designers, and executives to deliver scalable, customer-centric banking solutions in the cloud.

You will foster engineering excellence, drive workforce strategy, mentor engineers, and recruit top talent while ensuring delivery velocity, system resilience, and alignment with business goals across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 7 years of people management experience.
• At least 9 years of software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• At least 9 years of enterprise architecture and design patterns 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 and skill development across engineering teams.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers on your team.
• Work with product managers to understand application capabilities and testing scenarios.

Skills

People management

Cloud architecture

Software engineering

Strategic planning

Mentoring teams

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

SPA frameworks

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director, Full-stack Engineer to lead multiple product-focused software teams, shape long-term technical strategy, and partner with product managers, designers, and executives to deliver scalable, customer-centric banking solutions in the cloud.

You will foster engineering excellence, drive workforce strategy, mentor engineers, and recruit top talent while ensuring delivery velocity, system resilience, and alignment with business goals across enterprise platforms.