Senior Director, Software Engineering — Lead Multi-Team Tech

Capital One; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 327,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering customer-facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and back-end Java systems using cutting-edge open source tools. The role emphasizes data-driven engineering, scalable architectures, and modern tooling adoption across the SDLC.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, drive Agile practices, and advance AWS deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 9 years in software engineering.
• At least 7 years in people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow multiple product-focused software engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers on professional and technical development.
• Collaborate with product managers to define capabilities and testing scenarios.
• Improve software engineering practices across Agile teams.
• Guide full-stack design, development, testing, and deployment to AWS.
• Drive monolith to microservices transformation and scalability.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Agile practices

Cloud & microservices

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Capital One seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering customer-facing web/mobile apps, RESTful microservices, and back-end Java systems using cutting-edge open source tools. The role emphasizes data-driven engineering, scalable architectures, and modern tooling adoption across the SDLC.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product managers, drive Agile practices, and advance AWS deployments.