Senior Director, Full-Stack Engineering (Remote)

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Career development

Employee resources

Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead high-performing, full-stack teams and drive engineering strategy in the cloud. You will partner with product, design, and executive leaders to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions across enterprise platforms.

As a people leader, you will mentor managers, shape talent strategy, champion inclusive engineering culture, and ensure delivery velocity, system resilience, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum 7 years of people management experience.
• Minimum 9 years of software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews and setting coding standards.
• Expertise in the strategic application of AI coding tools.

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 roadmaps with scalable tech capabilities.
• Drive talent strategy, ensuring succession planning and skill development.
• Mentor engineers on technical and professional growth.
• Lead deployments of applications into AWS environments.

Skills

People management

Cloud computing

AWS

Azure

GCP

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Python

SQL

Job description

Capital One in McLean, VA is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead high-performing, full-stack teams and drive engineering strategy in the cloud. You will partner with product, design, and executive leaders to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions across enterprise platforms.

As a people leader, you will mentor managers, shape talent strategy, champion inclusive engineering culture, and ensure delivery velocity, system resilience, and compliance.