Senior Resilience Architect & Technical Leader

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

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer to shape the future of banking in the cloud. You will lead technical direction, collaborate with developers, ML experts, PMs, and people leaders, and mentor teams to elevate engineering excellence across Capital One Tech.

You will champion observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering while delivering practical, scalable solutions and driving reliability across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, and cloud computing.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams and driving architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
• Serve as an authoritative expert on non‑functional system characteristics such as performance and scalability.
• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into the community.
• Handle several projects simultaneously to maximize impact.
• Mentor and coach the engineering and product community.

Skills

Cloud computing

Enterprise architecture

Technical leadership

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree in CS or related

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Distinguished Engineer to shape the future of banking in the cloud. You will lead technical direction, collaborate with developers, ML experts, PMs, and people leaders, and mentor teams to elevate engineering excellence across Capital One Tech.

You will champion observability, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering while delivering practical, scalable solutions and driving reliability across enterprise platforms.