Senior Director, Software Engineering (Remote Eligible)

Capital One; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking tech company as a Senior Director of Software Engineering, where you'll lead talented teams to innovate and build a game-changing core banking platform. This role emphasizes collaboration, effective communication, and a passion for technology, allowing you to leverage open source technologies and cloud solutions to drive impactful customer experiences. You'll inspire your teams to excel while embracing emerging technologies and fostering a culture of innovation. If you have a proven track record in software development and leadership, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant difference in the banking industry.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software development experience with strong leadership skills.
• Expertise in cloud technologies and managing software engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple teams in building a core banking platform.
• Collaborate on automation and machine learning opportunities.

Skills

Software Development

People Management

Cloud Technologies

Agile Methodologies

Effective Communication

Analytical Skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Open Source Technologies

Full-Stack Development Tools

Job description

Senior Director, Software Engineering (Remote Eligible)

Do you want to work for a tech company that writes its own code, develops its own software, and builds its own products? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges with open source technologies in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment? We experiment and innovate leveraging the latest technologies, engineer breakthrough customer experiences, and bring simplicity and humanity to banking. We make a difference for 65 million customers. At Capital One, you’ll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We want you to be curious and ask “what if?”

Capital One is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead, manage, mentor, and build an extremely talented software engineering team to deliver a game changing core banking platform that powers multiple lines of business within the Bank. This leader must have the ability to attract and recruit the industry’s best talent, and simultaneously have the technical chops to ensure that we build compelling, customer oriented solutions in an iterative methodology. Success in the role requires an innovative mind, a proven track record of delivering new consumer-facing software products, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for creating market-leading software for millions of customers.

Background:

• Technologist: Strong engineering and technology background with the ability to learn quickly and go deep into our product and engineering solutions.
• Effective Communication: Excellent listener; proven collaborator with superiors, peers and staff.
• Partnership Attitude: Have the competencies to build very strong partnerships with other technology leaders that enable your team's ability to stay on the leading edge of industry solutions.
• Curious: Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" collaborative style of working.
• Passionate: Bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization.
• Bold: History of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change.
• Achiever: Consistently attain/exceed individual and team goals.
• Leadership: The ability to inspire your teammates to deliver quality software solutions.

You will:

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers in building our core banking platform.
• Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open source products across all platforms.
• Work to modernize our existing tech stacks.
• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning.
• Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new applications.
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across mobile and web full-stack development tools and technologies.
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments.
• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.
• Create proof of concepts and see through projects through production.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 9 years of experience in software development.
• At least 7 years of experience in developing web applications and architectural standards.
• At least 7 years of experience in people management.
• At least 3 years of experience with cloud technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering.
• 3+ years experience with Amazon Web Services.
• 3+ years of experience with Core Banking platforms or related services and technologies.

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.