Senior Director, Software Engineering — Cloud & AI

Capital One National Association

McLean (VA)

On-site

USD 315,000 - 359,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Capital One in McLean, VA seeks a Sr. Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams building customer-facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and back-end Java systems using modern open source frameworks.

You'll oversee engineers across a wide tech stack including node.js, Java, GO, AngularJS/React, Python, and cloud infrastructure. This role emphasizes mentoring, agile practices, and engineering excellence, with a startup mindset in an enterprise setting.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Minimum 9 years in software engineering and 7+ years in people management.
Experience leading multiple teams and driving engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of software engineers.
Mentor engineering staff and guide professional development.
Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and testing scenarios.
Improve software engineering practices and accelerate delivery.
Design, develop, test, and support full-stack solutions across multiple tech stacks.
Drive availability, resilience, and scalability of services.
Lead deployment of applications to AWS and transition to microservices.